Ann Jones
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552 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Ann Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She can tuck her butt under, and even though those males might ejaculate, she still has a chance to choose the paternity of her young.
And ducks are not the only ones who have developed this type of anatomical female cryptic choice.
If you needed a reason to study STEM, there you have it.
Using a beer keg to inflate a dolphin penis.
Diane Kelly is an anatomy expert who has dedicated large portions of her career to cutting up genitals, which makes it sound way more dodgy than it actually is.
She's at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in this particular research, she took the reproductive tissues of the female and the male dolphin, beer-kegged the erection, and then inserted the male member into the female corpus.
Brace yourself, we are just about to ruin flipper reruns for you.
Ah, there's that music again.
Bottlenose dolphins do force copulation.
A group of males can gang up on a female and harass her endlessly until she gives in.
Key concept alert.
Sexual conflict is where the interests of the breeding parties do not align.
He wants bang.
She wants peace and quiet and to go to the toilet without having to take the whole family with her.
Sound familiar?
Yeah, it's startlingly analogous to the duck's internals.
Does it work in a similar way, though, stopping an unwanted batch of sperm from entering the system?
Having specially developed anatomy to help you choose what sperm goes where is only the very top level of female cryptic choice.
And strap yourself in or on because the ongoing sexual war goes deeper and gets weirder because it involves the protective mechanism that we have too, the immune system.
This is, by the way, Professor Sarah Robertson again from the University of Adelaide.
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