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203: No Such Thing As A Muscular Butterfly

No Such Thing As A Fish

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Is the Dip Stick in a Car's Oil Tank a Cake?

Male butterflies use their penis to measure inside the females how full she is. They then decide how much span to deposit based on the female's mating history. The male will entake lots of fertile sperm, but then loads and loads of fake stuff which is designed to put off future males who might mate with the females. And there's less of a chance that my er generating material get passed on to the next generation. Rather, they might be deterred from mating. That's why they have these huge mats of pony sperm. Also eject m maybe this is the same thing that they eject, actually. It's something called methal salicylate, which is also called oil of winter

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