• pooberbee (any)@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Is it really seven times wider and seven times longer? Did a male serotine bat tell you that? And you believed it?

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Prehensile penis?

    NGL having a prehensile penis sounds like it’d be pretty cool

    Not to mention probably quite popular with one’s partners as well

    Though so giant it doesn’t fit sounds like quite the buzz kill

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      8 months ago

      Can you give me an estimate of how many similarly disturbing facts I’d have to expect there. I’m not sure if I can do this •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀

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    8 months ago

    Are there any guesses as to why they evolved this way? What advantage does this have over penetrative sex?

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      8 months ago

      Maybe it’s only advantageous if u spend most of your time hanging from a ceiling by your toes

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      8 months ago

      So why might the serotine bat have evolved such an enormous sex organ? The authors suggest that females might use their tail membranes to avoid mating, and the males’ long, thick penises could be used to push that membrane aside. “The hollow structure observed in the dorsal side of the erect penis might serve as a suction cup and support the maintenance of the copulatory contact,” the authors wrote. “Therefore, the penis’s size, shape, and prolonged embrace might further support the transport of sperm cells into the vagina and through the long cervix.”

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      This only partially answers the question of why, though.