Originally published at: Why frogs frequently f**k odd things | Boing Boing
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To be fair, turtles themselves are hardly innocent on that score.
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I still say humans have them beat. As it were.
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Check the couch cushions, just a guess.
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Well maybe those chimps in the Honolulu zoo using frogs as sex toys… got the idea from the frogs.
Arguably, there’s choosiness and then there’s mating with a shoe,
Be sure to read that in Groucho Marx voice.
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Is it a lack of refinement or taste? A domination ritual? Or just personal expression? All we know is, the frogs are not alone:
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And we need to know this because…?
Because they are hoping to win an Ig Nobel Prize?
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Because there are studies about this. Two of them are linked in the OP.
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Not always unpromising- “functional necrophilia” can result in viable offspring.
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This just in: Nature is super-horny.
For more detail, see Darwin’s theory of Survival of the Freakiest, which outlines the value of simply boffing everything that might conceivably, you know, ‘conceive’. Granted, there’s an energy cost in banging something that turns out to be an old gardening glove, but if you live in a ‘target-rich’ environment where any random object is more likely to be a female frog than an abandoned sandal, Papa Natural Selection says “go for it”. Because if you don’t, some other frog might get there first.
Application of this principle to human dating strategies is left to the social scientists to examine.
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Because knowing the half the battle.
The other half is staying away from frogs. Or maybe 25% red lasers and 25% blue lasers. Whatever.
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Feeling a bit randy and looking at hey, is that thing not covered in spoor yet? But iT cOUlD bE!
Looking forward to Peak Republican Not Looking Covered In Spoor Is Consent coverage. There’s a debate to uh…conditionally see.
