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Related: About this forumThe 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 its like hitting the jackpot.
My number one quarry is the echidna an ancient termite-eating hedgehog with what can only be described as the worlds 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 Im 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 echidnas extraordinary penis that attracted them to their work and they all nod. Apparently I will not be disappointed.
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http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/03/the-tasmanian-echidnas-four-headed-penis/?source=link_TW_02
DCKit
(18,541 posts)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.
pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)lol. that is one weird cockadoodle.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)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)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)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!
FailureToCommunicate
(14,029 posts)joshcryer
(62,287 posts)...that big.
That picture is so hilariously awesome.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)that is in Legend of the Guardians?
What an amazing creature, he looks very happy and proud of himself.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Solly Mack
(90,799 posts)Look at those claws!
Cute animals!