EPISODE · Apr 9, 2019 · 6 MIN
The Plan to Save the Rhino With a Cervix-Navigating Robot
from Science, Spoken · host SpokenLayer
The duck is famous for two things: really liking bread (even though they’re not supposed to be eating it), and wielding insanely complicated reproductive bits. More specifically, male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, while females’ reproductive tracts corkscrew in the opposite direction. It’s a disturbing consequence of an evolutionary arms race, the females’ countermeasure to notoriously aggressive males. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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The duck is famous for two things: really liking bread (even though they’re not supposed to be eating it), and wielding insanely complicated reproductive bits. More specifically, male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, while females’ reproductive tracts corkscrew in the opposite direction. It’s a disturbing consequence of an evolutionary arms race, the females’ countermeasure to notoriously aggressive males.
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The Plan to Save the Rhino With a Cervix-Navigating Robot
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