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Oz insect attempts to mate with bottle, wins Ig Nobel

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UPDATED: Sunday, October 9, 2011 04:59
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Saturday, October 1, 2011 4:53 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Which just goes to show they'll give Nobels to just about ANYONE!
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Australians are renowned for their love of the stubby - that small bottle of beer essential to any good barbie. Even the most besotted beer-drinking cricket fan in Melbourne, however, is unlikely to attempt to mate with their stubby -- but that didn't stop an Australian jewel beetle (Julodimorpha bakewelli) from doing just that.

Biologist Darryl Gwynne, now at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, and his colleague David Rentz, noticed the errant beetles in 1983 in Western Australia. On Thursday they were awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for their paper on the phenomenon: "Beetles on the Bottle: Male Buprestids Mistake Stubbies for Females".

Gwynne says the bottles resemble a "super female" jewel beetle: big and orangey brown, with a slightly dimpled surface.





Poor sucker; talk about sexual frustration!


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Saturday, October 1, 2011 5:01 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Lil' guy needs to strap a 2x4 on....





" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Saturday, October 1, 2011 7:47 AM

FREMDFIRMA



I shouldn't, but I will...

Caption: GODDAMN THIS BITCH IS FAT!

-F

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Saturday, October 1, 2011 9:31 AM

FLORALBUNNY


They aren't Nobels. They're Ig Nobels. And "just anyone" can't get one. You do the research. You publish. It tickles someone's funnybone. You are nominated. If you win, you are invited to pick up your Prize (this year it was an actual miniature Table of the Elements, with little legs under it) at a lovely ceremony at Harvard. Real Nobelists are in attendance. Paper airplanes are thrown. Off-key music is performed. Humorous speeches are given. Et cetera. Oh, and there's a webcast.

bun
I think the beetle scientists may have thrown beetles into the audience - - that's what it looked like.

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Saturday, October 1, 2011 5:14 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I knew that, Bunny, I just thought it was funny.

Frem: most excellent!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



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Saturday, October 8, 2011 5:56 PM

FLORALBUNNY


My bad. There are some really ignorant people here and I don't always remember which ones I'm posting at.

bun

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Sunday, October 9, 2011 4:59 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Not a problem. You're right, and hey, in my opinion ALL of us show ignorance at one time or another! Trying to figure out which is which at any given time would take the wisdom of Solomon!


Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off



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