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

The BrainFood Show

Cloud10

History, Education

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

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 of bizarre animal mating practices, starting with the somewhat humorous mating practices of the giraffe, looking at how porcupines mate without serious injury, banana slugs, the evil that is the male duck, and more! On another note, if you could do us a huge favor and rate and review this show in whatever podcasting platform you’re using (including hopefully giving us some feedback related to the new format), we would be extremely grateful. Thanks! (You can also discuss this episode and view references on The BrainFood Show forum here.) Don’t miss future episodes of this podcast, subscribe here: iTunes | Spotify | Google Play Music | Stitcher | RSS/XML You can also find more episodes by going here: The BrainFood Show The post How Porcupines Mate, the Bizarre Sex Habits of Giraffes (and Much, Much More) appeared first on Today I Found Out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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