Comments on: Frigid echidna sex – competition drives males to mate with hibernating females

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» Frigid Sex — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:38:07 +0000

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By: Ed Yong

Ed Yong — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:10:29 +0000

Heh. Me to myself, while I wrote this: “Well I know there are many species of echidna but that sentence is getting quite long and clumsy already and maybe if I just go with “examples” rather than “species”, no one will pick it up.”
On the internet, *someone* will pick it up…

By: Nuytsia

Nuytsia — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:52:58 +0000

Ah echidnas. They have to be one of the best things about living in Tassie.

“the echidna, along with the platypus, are the only two living examples of egg-laying mammals”

This sentence is a little inaccurate. Do you mean two types?
There are four species of echidna; one Tachyglossus species and three Zaglossus species.

By: Zach Miller

Zach Miller — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:47:59 +0000

This is my “WTF” face.

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:15:19 +0000

“…and ejaculates large bundles of sperm.”
Large bundles? Is the sperm tied together somehow?! Isn’t that irreducibly complex?!
Seriously: nice blog. Thanks.