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JessM Who knows, perhaps in the far flung future, gals and guys will shun copulation. There will be sperm supermarkets stacked high with shelves of the wee packages bearing 'special offers' and two for the price of one tags...

Course i do, Annobel. Rather sweet way of reproducing dontcha think?

How would you know what Bush Crickets call it? Do you speak their language?

In the Bush Cricket it is called a "nuptial gift" because it contains a little nourishment as well. Chocolates maybe?

Gift wrapped!

Ah thought so.
Do you think we have frightened the OP away?
I miss PoppaRob. I wish he would visit us more often. My favourite GN GD

I was hoping to provoke further discussion on the pros and cons of beautifully wrapped sperm parcels as a means of insemination - anyone?

The mothers!

And then sometimes they die poor chaps. Or is that the mother octopi once they have had a brood.

I knew octopi did

Quite a lot of invertebrates produce gift wrapped packages of sperm which they insert "manually" as it were. Quite a popular method. There are pros and cons. Less messy without a doubt. It would also make contraception a whole lot easier wouldn't it. "Just leave it on the table and I'll unwrap it later darling"
There but for a quirk of vertebrate evolution...

That`d be handy! Or not, depending on how Mrs. Spider feels?

number the mind boggles Perhaps the spider has seven spares...just in case of an accident

I read somewhere that a spider`s is on it`s leg, don`t know which one!

DS used to keep ducks. Before that I didn't know birds had penises. They don't all. Sparrows for instance rely on proximity.
But ducks have long, mobile, brightly coloured ones. Pigs I think have corkscrew shaped ones - is that right?

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Perhaps you were thinking of penises when thinking of David Cameron

I put that message on this thread by mistake jeni. It was meant for the David Cameron Veto thread. Don't know how that happened.

jing?

Wrong thread!!!!!

Oh look They made it up. Wasn't that sweet! Aah! smiles all round.

Oh yes!

There's obviously a lot more to Jeni than meets the eye!!

I hadn't realised that jeni was a vet.

Apparently most marsupials have bifurcate penises. That was a fact I didn't know before. I just googled it. I wonder what google will make of some of my searches?

I must direct my grandchildren to this thread when they want to know the facts of life - what a mine of useless accurate information is to be found here! (sarcy emoticon)