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Female toads inflate to avoid sex.
BBC ^ | Jan 6 2010 | BBC

Posted on 01/24/2010 5:41:40 PM PST by GSP.FAN

A report in the Royal Society's Biology Letters journal describes how a female cane toad inflates its body to prevent an amorous male from mating with it.

This makes it difficult for the male toad to "hold on".

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: genderwars; napl; toads
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Works for me...
1 posted on 01/24/2010 5:41:41 PM PST by GSP.FAN
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To: GSP.FAN

My ex-wife did that very same thing.


2 posted on 01/24/2010 5:42:24 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: GSP.FAN

LOL, same thing happens to married women.


3 posted on 01/24/2010 5:42:37 PM PST by upsdriver
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4 posted on 01/24/2010 5:43:59 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

She looks even less appealing then Rosie O’Donuts!


5 posted on 01/24/2010 5:45:35 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Is anyone in the 0bama administration competent at anything?!!?)
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To: GSP.FAN

There was no way I could pass this headline.

Man you found a gem.


6 posted on 01/24/2010 5:45:43 PM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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...inflates its body to prevent an amorous male from mating with it.

Yep.. Seen it happen in the human world too. They also put so much junk on their skin they may be just as poisonous as the toad.

7 posted on 01/24/2010 5:48:26 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: GSP.FAN

You beat me to it! Really, it’s not fair to the self respecting toads!


8 posted on 01/24/2010 5:51:16 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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So, does it look to your like Rosie is slowly turning into an actual troll?


9 posted on 01/24/2010 5:52:29 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Made from The Right Stuff)
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To: upsdriver

Sure, men never let their six packs turn into beer bellies.


10 posted on 01/24/2010 5:53:32 PM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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Must be Jelly, cause jam don't shake like that.
11 posted on 01/24/2010 5:53:32 PM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: GSP.FAN

Rosie O’Doughnut...not enough beer in the world.


12 posted on 01/24/2010 5:53:55 PM PST by Mich Patriot
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How 'bout this one?


13 posted on 01/24/2010 5:55:20 PM PST by ChrisInAR (You gotta let it out, Captain!)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Lets hope Toads have a sense of humour..


14 posted on 01/24/2010 5:56:45 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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Not only that, but they can give the males genital warts.


15 posted on 01/24/2010 5:57:32 PM PST by hellbender
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To: ChrisInAR

At least if she inflated, the wrinkles would disappear!!!


16 posted on 01/24/2010 5:58:11 PM PST by Mich Patriot
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To: ChrisInAR

UGH..Helen does not need to inflate smiling does the same job..


17 posted on 01/24/2010 5:59:35 PM PST by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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The toad wins, no contest!


18 posted on 01/24/2010 5:59:54 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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Well gee, could the male make himself any more unattractive?


19 posted on 01/24/2010 6:00:25 PM PST by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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Holy Sh!t, his testicles double as life jackets!!!


20 posted on 01/24/2010 6:01:55 PM PST by Mich Patriot
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