By A.M., IANtB Science Editor
Scientists have been getting gratuitous on Twitter this past week with a new hashtag. Move over, #distractinglysexy and #fieldworkfail. Get ready for #junkoff! On Tuesday, Anne Hilborn and her colleagues at Virginia Techs Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation started sharing photographs of animal genitalia. One of their followers then commented that the biologists appeared to be having a “junk-off” — and it was on. This post might be NSFW, but nothing here is human so…ask your boss?
echidna – four-headed penis
Can’t show a dolphin penis and not show the dolphin vagina! This is a mold of a dolphin vagina — it’s shaped like a corkscrew to keep the old penises out!
Male vervet monkey – We know what you’re thinking; they’re just like that!
Burmese python hemipene – © 2006, Vida Preciosa International, Inc.
moth scent gland
Lepord slug penises – Terrestrial slugs are hermaphrodites – so by wrapping their penises around one another, leopard slugs fertilise each other’s eggs.
Black widow corkscrew penis – breaks off in the females reproductive tract
crocodile penis
