Scientists find clitorises on female snakes (weird thing to look for?)

[.41Dave]

This struck me as a pretty weird thing to be looking for. I would not have thought there were people asking if snakes seduce each other, never mind making it their life's work, but there it is.​

Australia: Scientists find clitorises on female snakes​

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The discovery of the clitoris in snakes suggest there could be seduction and pleasure in the mating process
By Frances Mao
BBC News

Scientists have discovered that snakes do have clitorises, shattering a long-held assumption that the females didn't have a sexual organ.
Research published Wednesday provides the first proper anatomical descriptions of female snake genitalia.

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Australia: Scientists find clitorises on female snakes

The females had long been overlooked, say scientists who suggest snake sex could involve seduction.

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[Libertas]

Nature has their reasons for such things. I used to rehab possums. The males have a forked penis with two ends. My Vet was quite intrigued when we neutered one of the little guys. Apparently the female possums have a double uterus.

 

[Libertas]

This is interesting. Some male species die or are killed during mating. I have seen this at the bee hives.

Top 10 Animals with the Most Unusual Mating Tactics - OneKindPlanet

onekindplanet.org

 

[BackwardsEngineer]

Sometimes after too much wine, the gals in our group get to teasing... they claim half us guys can't find the switch on them much less snakes in the outback...

 

[Bushpilot]

Most men couldn’t find it even with a map and a GPS!

 

[Casey Jones]

Weird thing to look for? Consider who are now government scientists...government grant-awarders...what KINDS of people go into FUNDED research. Like the nuclear scientist with a bald head and many tubes of lipstick, and a full wardrobe of evening gowns.

The insane and psychotically-perverted, have taken over government.

 

[Goldhedge]

Once you find it, you got it licked!

 

[rblong2us]

shouldnt the plural be clitorii ?

 

[nickndfl]

Did the snake identify as female?