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Post by Chuck on Jan 12, 2010 18:36:29 GMT -5
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Jan 12, 2010 20:25:08 GMT -5
Wow, Amazon ants! That's totally cool.
I read a book not too long ago that argued that the human Y chromosome was deteriorating, and that human males might one day become extinct. Sorry boys, heh heh.
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jan 12, 2010 20:39:27 GMT -5
I thought all ants were lesbians.
Whenever I see them in the house, they're lapping the carpet...
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Post by solgroupie on Jan 12, 2010 20:41:06 GMT -5
hellloooo, sloane!
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Post by The Mad Plumber on Jan 13, 2010 2:51:21 GMT -5
Lesbian Ant Farm ... wasn't that a grunge rock band or something?
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Post by Continuing Legend on Jan 14, 2010 0:15:29 GMT -5
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Post by Continuing Legend on Jan 14, 2010 0:20:40 GMT -5
Also I'm really disappointed that they completely missed the opportunity to use the word LESBIANT
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Post by Ratso on Jan 14, 2010 1:11:26 GMT -5
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Post by pyrozombie on Jan 19, 2010 1:12:59 GMT -5
Why do I feel as though women in our species are plotting the very same thing?
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Post by reaperg on Jan 19, 2010 11:54:44 GMT -5
Now the Westboro Baptist Church will go around stomping every anthill they see.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Jan 19, 2010 15:58:48 GMT -5
That's interesting. I wonder what makes it a "female" if it's an asexual reproduction. Is it just because males used to be involved or is it more than that?
Like, is every asexual animal out there a female, or are there still certain qualifications that must be met?
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Post by Bix Dugan on Jan 19, 2010 23:16:32 GMT -5
I would think most asexual reproducers are amoeba and very simple plant life, like algea.
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Post by pyrozombie on Jan 20, 2010 0:31:16 GMT -5
That's interesting. I wonder what makes it a "female" if it's an asexual reproduction. Is it just because males used to be involved or is it more than that? Like, is every asexual animal out there a female, or are there still certain qualifications that must be met? well they still have the chromosomes, XX or XY and I believe the XY variation is man, while XX is woman. |
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Post by spackle on Jan 20, 2010 13:19:31 GMT -5
That's interesting. I wonder what makes it a "female" if it's an asexual reproduction. Is it just because males used to be involved or is it more than that? Like, is every asexual animal out there a female, or are there still certain qualifications that must be met? It might have something to do with anatomy. Ants probably hatch from eggs, whether they've got mommies and daddies or just mommies, and maybe anything that has the equipment to lay eggs is by definition a female? |
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Jan 20, 2010 16:20:31 GMT -5
Someone once told me that "female" is defined as having ova. I asked because I once read an author who said "maleness is just a technology invented by females so that they can exchange genetic material with each other," and I thought, hey, that might be right, and that started me wondering then what "female" meant. I asked a biologist and he said "that which produces eggs," no matter the version of reproduction used. Homosexuality in animals is pretty common--perhaps pervasive. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior (I'd not know about this except one of my former students gave a report on it, fascinating me.) Wiki's article on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamogenesis is also useful. My favorite odd-way-to-reproduce animals are the sequential hermaphrodites, particularly the fish who do protogyny. They are all female, until it's time to reproduce, then one changes into a male to fertilize the eggs. Ain't life mysterious and grand? |
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