Scientist seeks deposits for elephant sperm bank

The Local ^ | 16 Mar 12 | Ben Knight

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Elephants in captivity are becoming too inbred, so a German researcher has amassed a sperm bank of wild elephant semen for zoos to draw on. There’s just one small problem – sperm is not a commodity bull elephants give up lightly.

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There's a job to put on your resume.

[Yaelle]

Good idea to advertise on Free Republic. Though most of us are more conservative than Republican elephants any more.

Have they asked Karl Rove?

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Any volunteers?

[ClearCase_guy]

Old riddle: What does an elephant have in common with milk?

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[Stormdog]

I know the answer but I don’t want to get banned!

[DannyTN]

You mean the job title Pachyderm Reproductive Stimulator aka as a Community Organizer?

[USS Alaska]

I know the answer but I don’t want to get banned!

Teach monica lewinsky how to spit.

[frogjerk]

[Stormdog]

“There’s a job to put on your resume.”

Check Sandra Fluke’s, she seems to know a lot about these kinds of things.

[KarlInOhio]

There’s just one small problem – sperm is not a commodity bull elephants give up lightly.

Do what I do, get 'em goood and drunk.

[andy58-in-nh]

Old riddle: What does an elephant have in common with milk?

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They both come from mommy elephants?

[SunkenCiv]

Okay, but I’m not as young as I used to be.

[dfwgator]

Didn't you ever hear that song by Loverboy, "An Elephant and a Pig's DNA Just Won't Splice."

[Slings and Arrows]

That’s not an elephant; that’s a beached whale.

[Joe 6-pack]

"There's a job to put on your resume."

Donor or collecter?

[Darksheare]

Mz Fluke is ready.

[Abathar]

I got as far as a bushel of Gummie Bears and a few bottles of Everclear. After that the ick factor kicks in though...

[Nervous Tick]

Here’s the Jeopardy version of your old riddle: “What’s gray and comes in quarts?”