The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $384,949 grant to
Yale University for a study on “Sexual Conflict, Social Behavior and the
Evolution of Waterfowl Genitalia”, according to the
recovery.gov website.
The grant was made available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package. The project has been receiving money from the NSF since 2009 and is slated for funding through July of this year. “In the last quarter, we have prepared a manuscript for submission on
the results of the first two years of experiments on social phenotypic
plasticity in duck penis length in Lesser Scaup and Ruddy Duck.
Experiments continued on genital social phenotypic plasticity in
Mandarin Duck and Laysan Teal,” a 2010 fourth quarter recovery.gov
update on the study says. Many duck penises are cork-screw shaped and some scientists believe
this is because of a form of evolution known as "sexual conflict"...
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Sequester, what sequester? I should have titled this Big Bucks for Duck Dicks, Now how Daffy is that?
Maybe I should change DC Deep Thinkers to DC Dumb Clucks.
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