[lit-ideas] Re: OLD JOKES
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:32:08 -0700
On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:00 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
I know what guppies are, but I didn't know they er 'bred' like rabbits!
The problem, if problem it is, is not entirely the males' fault. It
takes but an instant to make a female pregnant and she can give birth
to several generations from one impregnation. The females live a life
like that of the young Catherine of Aragon, constantly pregnant. At
the instigation of International Guppy Rights Watch, we now have a
second, all- female tank that I'd call "Amazonian" if that weren't a
bit unfair to Trinidad. The anthropomorphic idea is to give them some
respite, but the actual result is that more babies survive, some of
which then do the Oedipal thing which--would you believe it--many of
the breeder sites recommend as a way of reinforcing whatever designer
traits you're trying to achieve. The deformed ones, say these same
sites, are a problem that you solve by putting the animals in a freezer
bag and giving them the long hibernation treatment. We just wait and
let nature take its course; the mothers eat any young they can catch.
Guppy sex is a bit of a hot topic.
They're studying Guppy sexual harassment in Bangor:
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/060608_guppy.htm
And drawing further conclusions at the Royal Society
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/exhibit.asp?id=3636
This site has a Guppy Sex Simulator:
http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/guppy.html
David Ritchie,
Purveyor of Slight Fishy Information
Portland, Oregon
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