{"id":452,"date":"2009-08-24T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/?p=452"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:41:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T15:41:47","slug":"sperm-prefer-attractive-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/sperm-prefer-attractive-females","title":{"rendered":"Sperm Prefer Attractive Females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make this stuff up, promise. I just find it and pass it along for your perusal: &#8220;Males may alter the velocity of sperm they allocate to copulations by strategically firing their left and right ejaculatory ducts, which can operate independently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what leads to that double firing?<\/p>\n<p>Among red junglefowl, it&#8217;s attractive females that do the trick, according to an article at Discovery.com this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/strangenews\/090709-sperm-competition.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make this stuff up, promise. I just find it and pass it along for your perusal: &#8220;Males may alter the velocity of sperm they allocate to copulations by strategically firing their left and right ejaculatory ducts, which can operate independently.&#8221; And what leads to that double firing? Among red junglefowl, it&#8217;s attractive females [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-is-like-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeislikesciencefiction.com\/lifeislikescifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}