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Is there no end to the vile wickedness of nature? God is righteously pissed at THIS PERVERSION and is getting ready to send a rich flood of red tide into the habitat of these abominable beasts.
Brother Monty, do you think you might be able to get your associates in the Pacific to ship all of their radioactive waste to Queensland before dumping it?
Sex orgy 'lasts for days'
They come together in the hundreds, attracted by a pheromone that makes them crazy with desire, and spend the next couple of days having continuous sex.
This group orgy isn't made up of free-thinking humans with a passion for physical attention, but rather a species of near-blind marine animal.
Humans find love in many different ways, but for sea slugs, a powerful sex attractant is responsible for drawing them to a partner and stimulating them to mate.
Scott Cummins and his colleagues at the University of Queensland uncovered the potent mix of chemicals, describing it as the sea slug equivalent of a cross between "Chanel No 5 and Viagra."
Dr Cummins said generally a sea slug's day involved cruising the bottom of the ocean alone.
But during summer when the weather warmed, something triggered hundreds of them to gather in a sexual frenzy.
And the "party" often lasted for days, Dr Cummins said.
Exactly how sea slugs signal each other for this mating ritual has been a mystery for a long time, but researchers found the creatures secreted a cocktail of small proteins as a "pheromone message".
"To sea slugs these pheromones are powerful ... just a teaspoonful in a swimming pool-sized tank can make all the sea slugs lovestruck and send them into a mating frenzy."
The postdoctoral fellow works in UQ's School of Integrative Biology and said the discovery presented an exciting array of possibilities.
It is the first example of a multi-component attraction pheromone used by a marine animal.
"If we can understand how pheromones work in sea slugs - how the slugs detect them and how they influence slug behaviour - we may be able to enhance the management of similar marine animals in aquaculture," he said.
Further research could see the development of powerful new tools to eliminate pest species by disrupting this form of communication.
Dr Cummings' team, along with their American collaborators at the University of Texas Medical Branch, are working to uncover similar pheromone messages in other marine animals.
The results of their work have recently been published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists USA and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
They come together in the hundreds, attracted by a pheromone that makes them crazy with desire, and spend the next couple of days having continuous sex.
This group orgy isn't made up of free-thinking humans with a passion for physical attention, but rather a species of near-blind marine animal.
Humans find love in many different ways, but for sea slugs, a powerful sex attractant is responsible for drawing them to a partner and stimulating them to mate.
Scott Cummins and his colleagues at the University of Queensland uncovered the potent mix of chemicals, describing it as the sea slug equivalent of a cross between "Chanel No 5 and Viagra."
Dr Cummins said generally a sea slug's day involved cruising the bottom of the ocean alone.
But during summer when the weather warmed, something triggered hundreds of them to gather in a sexual frenzy.
And the "party" often lasted for days, Dr Cummins said.
Exactly how sea slugs signal each other for this mating ritual has been a mystery for a long time, but researchers found the creatures secreted a cocktail of small proteins as a "pheromone message".
"To sea slugs these pheromones are powerful ... just a teaspoonful in a swimming pool-sized tank can make all the sea slugs lovestruck and send them into a mating frenzy."
The postdoctoral fellow works in UQ's School of Integrative Biology and said the discovery presented an exciting array of possibilities.
It is the first example of a multi-component attraction pheromone used by a marine animal.
"If we can understand how pheromones work in sea slugs - how the slugs detect them and how they influence slug behaviour - we may be able to enhance the management of similar marine animals in aquaculture," he said.
Further research could see the development of powerful new tools to eliminate pest species by disrupting this form of communication.
Dr Cummings' team, along with their American collaborators at the University of Texas Medical Branch, are working to uncover similar pheromone messages in other marine animals.
The results of their work have recently been published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists USA and the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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