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Some Mouse Sperm Can Identify, and Even Cooperate With, Its Brethren
(Thanks to Bruce Kizer)
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January 26, 2010
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"Last one in is a ...um"
Posted by: Tash | January 26, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Some mouse sperm can discriminate between its brethren and competing sperm from other males, clustering with its closest relatives to swim faster in the race to the egg.
I guess Minnie really puts it around...NTTAWWT.
Promiscuous Mice WBAGNFARB.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 26, 2010 at 11:46 AM
I wonder if they feel guilty about that?
Posted by: marfie | January 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Oddly, my mouse wouldn't work properly when I tried to navigate that page....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM
I've always said that the problem with this world is not enough discriminating sperm.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | January 26, 2010 at 12:10 PM
"...more than 95 percent of mammals are promiscuous...."
And the other 5 percent live in Mom's basement.
Posted by: Ralph | January 26, 2010 at 01:02 PM
How do they get the samples?
Tiny little Happy Endings?!
Posted by: bonmot | January 26, 2010 at 01:24 PM
Mickey, on the stand at his divorce trial: "I never said Minnie was crazy; I said she was f*cking Goofy!"
Posted by: bonmot | January 26, 2010 at 02:00 PM
Some mice are such trollops . . .
Posted by: Mahatma Kane Jeeves (aka Brian D.) | January 26, 2010 at 02:03 PM
*snork* at bonmot
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 26, 2010 at 02:14 PM
If they're co-operating, they're doing better than the Vikings players and their coaching staff.
Posted by: Clankazoid | January 26, 2010 at 03:05 PM
Sperm has "brethren"?
Posted by: Guin | January 26, 2010 at 07:25 PM
like a "Wing sperm" ? Awesome!
Posted by: super awesome | January 26, 2010 at 10:32 PM