{"id":3988,"date":"2013-02-16T10:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2013-02-17T09:32:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T16:32:20","slug":"i-woke-up-this-morning-and-my-penis-was-missing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/16\/i-woke-up-this-morning-and-my-penis-was-missing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I Woke Up This Morning and My Penis Was Missing Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-21431678\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The BBC<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Sea slug&#8217;s &#8216;disposable penis&#8217; surprises<\/h1>\n<p><em>By Rebecca Morelle<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/byDiILrNbM4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A sea slug that is able to detach, re-grow and then re-use its penis has surprised scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese researchers observed the bizarre mating behaviour in a species called\u00a0<em>Chromodoris reticulata<\/em>, which is found in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>They believe this is the first creature known that can repeatedly copulate with what they describe as a &#8220;disposable penis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsbl.2012.1150\" target=\"_blank\">study is published<\/a>\u00a0in the Royal Society&#8217;s journal Biology Letters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Male and female<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sex life of the sea slug is complicated even before detachable organs come into play.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of these creatures, which are also known as nudibranchs, are thought to be &#8220;simultaneous hermaphrodites&#8221;. This means they have both male and female sexual organs and can use them both at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-21431678\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at the BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The BBC Sea slug&#8217;s &#8216;disposable penis&#8217; surprises By Rebecca Morelle A sea slug that is able to detach, re-grow and then re-use its penis has surprised scientists. Japanese researchers observed the bizarre mating behaviour in a species called\u00a0Chromodoris reticulata, which is found in the Pacific Ocean. They believe this is the first creature known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}