Now OT (was: RE: The Awards Listing v 0.5 & Turkey hunting)

>Then there are insects like bees and ants where the queen mates early
on in
>her life and produces viable eggs for years...

I kept Salamanders as a kid, and had a female produce 50 young two years
after killing her mate (she'd been on her own in the vivarium since
then....).
Kind of makes us guys feel a bit redundant, doesn't it....?  ;-)

Jon (GZG)
>
>--Binhan
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:	Beth Fulton [SMTP:beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au]
>> Sent:	Monday, March 06, 2000 4:06 PM
>> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>> Subject:	Re: The Awards Listing v 0.5 & Turkey hunting
>>
>> G'day Jon,
>>
>> >	However, studies have been done that show that the female lays
>> >fertile eggs for the whole mating season after only being mated by
the
>> >tom ONCE!  The tom's sperm is viable for the whole month!  What a
>> >scam!  I bet nobody's told the female turkeys yet.
>>
>> Yes but was it really his, many birds now turn out to cuckold their
>> 'mates'
>> on a regular basis...
>>
>> Besides one month is low compares to say skinks where it can be 6
months
>> right through to deep sea fish (like the angler fish) where the male
>> latches onto the female once he's found her and then is absorbed and
>> becomes little more than a bag ot testes hanging off her side... now
>> that's
>> committment! ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Beth
>>
>>
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