• SavvyWolf
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    431 month ago

    Animal: Does a sex thing.

    Scientists: BUT WHAT EVOLUTIONARY PURPOSE DOES IT SERVE!?

    • @[email protected]
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      291 month ago

      I think I broke the code! It makes them horny, which makes them want to have sex, which leads to pregnancy.

        • @ByteJunk
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          31 month ago

          Sounds like something Sheldon would say, so I’m calling it a fact.

  • hissing meerkat
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    101 month ago

    J. Maruthupandian and G. Marimuthu can’t understand purpose of sex being rewarding for females.

    The bats spent longer performing cunnilingus after copulation than before, so licking competitors sperm out can’t possibly be the reason, but it gets proposed.

    • @ByteJunk
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      31 month ago

      This foreplay may help arouse and lubricate females, the researchers said.

      It’s in the source article. Perhaps you could redirect your vitriol to OP instead of the researchers?