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Curiouser and Curiouser

A Podcast Of Unnecessary Detail

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Barnacles and the Crab

A female syprid lands on a male crab, it releases chemical signals to make the male crab more female. A barnacle that is carrying eggs in its brood sack can have flaps at them when they are ready to leave into the water fary. The same thing for the barnacles. It's amazing. I know it's heavily employed, but i feel like the crab is getting a bad deal out of this. And look, there aren't any pictures of barnacle peniss so you might as well check it out. Les: "I started off this poast knowing that our barnacles have giant penuses, and i've ended this pokust and wishing that that

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