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Electric fish prefers sexual charge of its own species

newscientist.com — People often compare sexual attraction to a jolt of electricity, but in some animals a charged atmosphere is very literal. Male elephant nose fish are known to lure females with the help of an electric field. Now lab experiments suggest that females fancy the electric aura of males of their own kind over the spark of closely related species.

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  • inactive, on 11/26/2008, -1/+10Wow, I've never heard of anything like this -- which is why I suppose it's news. This has got to be a bit frustrated for the males, though -- especially if they value variety as much as most men do.
  • thepeacemaker, on 11/26/2008, -0/+7I've always wondered how animals and fish (who've never seen what they themselves look like) figure out that the other animal is of their own kind and suitable for mating.
  • Ender008, on 11/26/2008, -1/+7And in other news, females prefer human men over apes.

    Unless the apes are rich, that is.
  • doublefelix, on 11/26/2008, -0/+5That is just the females way of saying "don't put your elephant nose where it doesn't belong".
  • alex7575, on 11/26/2008, -2/+6So you wouldn't mind just leaving then?
  • DirectTulip, on 11/26/2008, -0/+2Great explanation :D
  • robfrye, on 11/26/2008, -0/+2who doesn't?
  • m0og0o, on 11/26/2008, -0/+2i suppose you would rather see another obscure pointless top 10 list.
  • zjbird, on 11/26/2008, -0/+2Well I prefer the sexual charge of fish.
  • i4ybrid, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1WTF, can we bury this under the no sh*t sherlock category?
    Breaking Scientific News: Species like to procreate with their own species! Yes because if you as a human being want to make love to a monkey, there's a problem.
  • Japskunk, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1I am a woman electro-magnet
  • xsecretfiles, on 11/26/2008, -1/+2So is you face!
  • borez, on 11/26/2008, -0/+1Interesting point.
  • dablufox, on 06/11/2009, -0/+0It's crazy how nature always finds a solution. Of everything scientists know or rather think they know, they really have just scratched the surface.

    http://freshwaterlures.blogspot.com/
  • Smelltastic, on 11/26/2008, -0/+0Shocking.
  • L4mb, on 11/26/2008, -2/+2Disproven by me. Every one that thinks that you are attracted to a girl because of an electrical charge go watch some porn right now.
  • inactive, on 11/26/2008, -1/+1I wish I could shock women with my penis.
  • Hobbes24, on 11/26/2008, -2/+1my nose is bigger than yours.
  • anon4031, on 11/26/2008, -1/+0oh wow me too
  • every2ndcounts, on 11/26/2008, -9/+2This is so gay
  • wtfmate112, on 11/26/2008, -10/+3So the gays have taken over digg.

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