Posts Tagged ‘mating’
Science & Technology - Tuesday, January 5, 2010 14:56 - 2 Comments
Female duck wins screwy tit for tat
“Although we predict that sexual conflict should be ubiquitous, finding a system where the ‘arms race’ between the sexes is so dramatic is exceedingly rare. Ducks are providing us with an incredible opportunity to understand the evolutionary consequences of conflict,” says lead researcher Patricia Brennan.
YALE—Female ducks have evolved an intriguing form of birth control: vaginas with clockwise spirals that thwart oppositely spiraled males.
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