Bat Chat, the podcast produced by the Bat Conservation Trust, visited with Ig Nobel Prize winner Gareth Jones. The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was awarded to Libiao Zhang, Min Tan, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, and Shuyi Zhang of China, and Gareth Jones of the University of Bristol, UK, for […]
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Conscientiousness with Fellatio as a Mate-Retention Activity
Conscientiousness and aggreeableness are key to whether women are able to keep up a relationship with a mate, if fellatio is involved, suggests this new study: “Women’s mate retention behaviors, personality traits, and fellatio,” Yael Sela [pictured here, above], Todd K. Shackelford [pictured here, below], Michael N. Pham, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 85, […]
First scientific report of fellatio in captive brown bears
The Ig Nobel Prize-winning study “Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time,” [by Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang and Libiao Zhang, published in PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 10, e7595] is one of several intellectual forebears (another is a study by Ig Nobel Prize winner Frans de Waal) […]
Saucy for the goose, saucy for the gander, cunnilingus for fruit bats
Ed Yong reports (with relish) on a successor to the Ig Nobel Prize winning study on fruit bat fellatio: Oral sex in fruit bats is clearly a hot area of research. In just four years, the number of papers on this topic has doubled from, er, one to two. It started in 2009, with a study that […]
Irish court ruling notes Ig Nobel aspect
The Irish Times reports today that an Ig Nobel Prize played a peripheral role in a ruling by the High Court: UCC lecturer has sanctions quashed A lecturer at University College Cork has won a High Court order quashing sanctions imposed on him following an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations made by a female colleague […]
Fruit bat award awakens memories in Ireland
The Irish newspaper The Independent reports, in the wake of the 2010 Ig Nobel Biology Prize being awarded to the scientists who documented fellatio in fruit bats, on allegedly-sordid doings in the city of Cork: Notorious fruit bat research wins ‘Ig Nobel’ prize AN ACADEMIC paper about oral sex among fruit bats — which sparked […]
New bat fellatio study gives insights
A new study helps answer the question raised in Thomas Nagel’s 1974 philosophy essay “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” A team of Chinese and British researchers focuses on one measurable aspect: “Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time,” Min Tan, Gareth Jones, Guangjian Zhu, Jianping Ye, Tiyu Hong, Shanyi Zhou, Shuyi Zhang […]