Bush Cricket Reveals Big Secret - "It's My Testicles!"

Because society demanded to know, researchers have discovered which species has the largest testicles in relation to body weight on the planet – and it's Tuberous Bushcricket (Platycleis affinis) which has testes which are 14% of the male body mass. Don't feel bad, Drosophila bifurca, your testes equal to 10.6% is still mighty.  Just in second place now. What's the reason for that?  More sperm, it would seem, but the researchers say that isn't the case, which proves once again that Nature is a bitch (and also a fine magazine, though this study was in Biology Letters.) read more

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