How Porcupines Mate, the Bizarre Sex Habits of Giraffes (and Much, Much More)

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

Documentary, Society & Culture, Education, History

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether or not male humans can get pregnant and carry a baby to full term naturally. (Spoiler- yes and yes. And even breastfeed too! It doesn’t even require fancy science or advanced medical techniques.) Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into a variety [...]

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of The Brain Food Show.
0:06.0	I'm Simon, I'm here with Davin and today
0:09.0	I was reading for the notes for this one.
0:12.0	It's an interesting one.
0:14.8	We're talking about the, it's got a really long title,
0:18.7	how to porcupines mate in the bizarre sex habits of giraffes
0:21.0	and much more.
0:21.8	It's a bit of a long one.
0:22.4	Lots more. Lots more, much more, much more it's a bit of a long one much more
0:23.2	much more almost like a bonus factor episode right yeah it is those are those are
0:27.6	great where are we starting we doing a bonus fact or what yeah we are
0:31.1	starting with a quick fact that is somewhat related but
0:33.2	more you know humans so it turns out in theory it is completely possible for a male
0:39.3	human to become pregnant with fertilized so so well I saw, I saw that documentary with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
0:45.0	Yeah, it turns out all you need to do is take a fertilized egg and implant it into the male's abdomen and then, you know,
0:52.0	hopefully then it will attach to something and if it does like the
0:55.2	liver or other organs and stuff you know it gets its nutrients from there if it
0:59.2	does happen this will result in a genuine pregnancy.
1:02.6	It's called an ectopic implantation.
1:05.3	And it is, as you might imagine, extremely risky
1:08.1	for the baby and the male in question,
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