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Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 10:27 AM Jul 2012

The Tasmanian Echidna’s Four-Headed Penis

Tasmania is like a time machine. Its primeval forests team with living fossils that have followed a different evolutionary branch to most mammals. So for freak lovers like me it’s like hitting the jackpot.

My number one quarry is the echidna – an ancient termite-eating hedgehog with what can only be described as the world’s weirdest wedding tackle. Echidnas, along with the duck-billed platypus, are the last surviving monotremes – an early branch of mammals that still lay eggs like reptiles. But despite such ancestral behaviour these oddballs are remarkably successful and have been waddling the planet since the time of the dinosaurs.

To find one I’m hooking up with Dr. Stuart Rose who has devoted the last 25 years of his life to studying the sex life of this peculiar creature. We rendezvous on a farm in the north of Tasmania on a bright but blowy morning. Stuart is accompanied by a quartet of windswept young female research students all equipped with a great Australian sense of humour. I ask them whether it was the echidna’s extraordinary penis that attracted them to their work and they all nod. Apparently I will not be disappointed.

more..
http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/03/the-tasmanian-echidnas-four-headed-penis/?source=link_TW_02

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The Tasmanian Echidna’s Four-Headed Penis (Original Post) Viva_La_Revolution Jul 2012 OP
It's intriguing, but I'm so vanilla regarding sex that I just can't go there. DCKit Jul 2012 #1
did u look at it? pansypoo53219 Jul 2012 #2
No, I didn't, you freak. OMG Pansy, why are you torturing me? DCKit Jul 2012 #3
I did. One word--BIZZ--ARRRRRR. kag Jul 2012 #11
Question for the zoologists out there: does the old adage Surya Gayatri Jul 2012 #4
And the best part is, the little feller is SO proud! And grinning! FailureToCommunicate Jul 2012 #5
Pfft, you'd be grinning too if you were that small but had a member... joshcryer Jul 2012 #6
Is this the same echidna felix_numinous Jul 2012 #7
Cutest thing evah! NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #8
My goodness. He's right proud...he's smiling! Solly Mack Jul 2012 #9
that guy could cause penis envy.... Historic NY Jul 2012 #10
 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
1. It's intriguing, but I'm so vanilla regarding sex that I just can't go there.
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 10:37 AM
Jul 2012

My teenage brain wants to explore perversity, but my adult brain just won't go there.

Damn, I got old when I wasn't looking. One penis is enough for me, these days.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
3. No, I didn't, you freak. OMG Pansy, why are you torturing me?
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:36 PM
Jul 2012

I'm so going to get you later... with something clean, nice and all generic - Pat Boone on a white horse.

kag

(4,079 posts)
11. I did. One word--BIZZ--ARRRRRR.
Mon Jul 9, 2012, 07:25 AM
Jul 2012

But what really struck me was that compared to the size of the body the shaft of that penis is HUGE!!!

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
4. Question for the zoologists out there: does the old adage
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 12:45 PM
Jul 2012

apply here?
"Double your pleasure, double your fun"--
or in this case, quadruple your pleasure, quadruple your fun?

Did you see that little guy spraying? Amazing projectile sphincter!

joshcryer

(62,287 posts)
6. Pfft, you'd be grinning too if you were that small but had a member...
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 10:21 PM
Jul 2012

...that big.

That picture is so hilariously awesome.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
7. Is this the same echidna
Fri Jul 6, 2012, 10:59 PM
Jul 2012

that is in Legend of the Guardians?

What an amazing creature, he looks very happy and proud of himself.

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