14 Some seagulls practice lesbian mating, although the eggs that result from their liaisons are sterile.

OK. I guess I don't know enough about birds. But "the eggs that result from their liaisons?" What makes them lay an egg? I thought egg-laying birds laid their eggs on schedule whether or not there was anyone around to fertilize them. If that's not true, then somehow egg-laying is triggered by mating (or eggs wouldn't be the "result" of mating). So what's the deal? Are the seagull eggs the "result" of two female seagulls mating, or would the eggs have happened regardless of sexual activity?

Yeah, but did you know that sometimes while mating, slugs will get their wangs stick in each other (that's right, each other, because they're hermaphroditic, so they diddle each others girly parts with their boyly parts at the same time) and if they can't get unstuck, one of them will chew one of the wangs completely off, leaving it there. (No, they don't grow back.)

Miko, I thought the same thing when I read that. I'm with you.

The eggs would happen regardless. Sometimes birds will lay just to "clear the chute" as it were. I've seen ducks drop unfinished eggs when the drakes were chasing them around. Kinda weird to pick up a squishy egg.

So if the right hormones were activated, I could see it. We had a couple of female geese who would alternate being "on top". They would lay on a schedule, though.

And Specklet, that gives new meaning to getting "sucked off". Damn.

Most of these seem to be taken from here.

Three things I didn't know about Discovery Magazine

1. It's as willing as any other media entity to attract an audience with titles like "20 things you probably didn't know about sex"

2. It considers examples of certain animal species doing things that are kinda like what some humans do to be interesting, titillating and worthy of most of the items on the list.

3. It's willing to fill in a list with what are basically jokey follow-ups to previous items, like "8: Here in the US of A, that kind of stuff ends up on YouTube."

Meh.

the parrot one sounds like hai2you.jpg

One thing I didn't know about wendell:

1) He's generally disapproving of jokey articles in otherwise-serious magazines.

6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes.

Yeah. My wife yelling at me for not taking my shoes off upon entering the house usually ends up in mutual climax.

I can see perfectly how that evolved.

One thing you didn't know about me:

1) I'm generally disapproving of unfunny jokey articles in all magazines.