It may only be half the size of a human finger, but this cricket is hiding a big secret: it has the largest testicles in relation to its body weight in the world.
Scientists have discovered that the male Tuberous Bushcricket has testes which are 14 per cent of its whole body mass.
To put this into perspective, a man with the same proportions would have to carry testicles weighing as much as five bags of sugar each.
Dr Karim Vahed holding a male Tuberous bushcricket together with its testicles
But despite this, the bushcricket does not necessarily produce the largest amount of sperm - contrary to traditional thinking - according to the study.
So now when the woman in your life says, "your brains are all in your balls", you will have an amazing retort, (make up your own)!
2 comments:
And politicians have the smallest brains.
Corrugatedarse, Hi again. You may well be right, but for people with the smallest brains, they do bloody well on it. The bastards!
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