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SciShow Tangents
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Sicio Tangents - The Science, the Science, and the Politics
A lot of male butterflies and moths are hiding something in their butts, two to four inflatable, feathery tube like appendages called cormata. When male butterflies are trying to attract a mate, they inflate these fuzzy tubes with blood or air and use them to spread stinky, sexy parmons around. And when moths tare well fed, their cormata, or corcorcormata, can grow bigger than the length of their bodies to show off their tremendous biological health.
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