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My scientific specialty is chronobiology (circadian rhythms and photoperiodism), with additional interests in comparative physiology, animal behavior and evolution. I am not an MD so I cannot diagnose and treat your sleep problems. As well as writing this blog, I am also the Online Discussion Expert for PLoS. This is a personal blog and opinions within it in no way reflect the policies of PLoS. You can contact me at: Coturnix@gmail.com
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Category: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
I know PZ has recently posted a picture and a video of slugs mating. But these pictures were taken here in North Carolina, by blog reader Kris Barstow, who says: The year was 1999 plus or minus a year, the...
Posted by Coturnix at 10:42 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
We have recently covered interesting reproductive adaptations in mammals, birds, insects, flatworms, plants and protists. For the time being (until I lose inspiration) I'll try to leave cephalopod sex to the experts and the pretty flower sex to the chimp...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:29 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
(First posted on February 5, 2007) Last week I asked if you would be interested in my take on this paper, since it is in Serbian (and one commenter said Yes, so here it is - I am easy...
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Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
[First posted here] Since I already posted, earlier in the week, the weirdest and most disgusting animal sex post ever, instead of writing a new one, I'll just send you to see some cute ladybug sex (scroll down to the...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:21 AM • •
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
{First posted here]. Well, this Friday Weird Sex Blogging is not going to be so unique. After all, Janet and Zuzu have already blogged about it, but who can resist a phallic-looking, rotten-meat smelling, fly-attracting flower! And it is not...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:19 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
As always, animal porn is under the fold (first posted here):...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:16 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
Some flatworms, for instance these pretty Pseudobiceros hancockanus, engage in penis fencing. Both individuals are hermaphrodites, i.e., have both male and female organs. The penis is white, pointed and two-headed. Both individuals are trying to inseminate the other. The one...
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Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
You should check out all of my SiBlings' Friday Blogging practices, then come back here for a new edition of Friday Weird Sex Blogging. Last week you saw an example of a corkscrew penis. But that is not the only...
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Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
What?.......
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Category: Friday Weird Sex Blogging
You really think I am going to put this above the fold? No way - you have to click (First posted on July 7, 2006):...
Posted by Coturnix at 3:11 AM • 2 Comments •
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