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| Japan polar bear mating stymied by gender mixup | |
| 2008-11-27 | |
| TOKYO (Reuters) -- Handlers of a popular polar bear, brought to mate with a female in a zoo in northern Japan, found their breeding plan was doomed when they noticed that he, in fact, was a she. Oopsie... Tsuyoshi, a four-year-old, 200 kg (441 lb) cream-colored polar bear, had been living in harmony with a female polar bear since June, the two often playing together, Masako Inoue, a zookeeper at the Kushiro Municipal Zoo, said on Wednesday. "We thought he was a male, so we never had any doubts as we took care of him," she said. "But one day we realized that the two bears urinate in the same way, and we thought, is that how males do it? And once we started to look at things that way, we weren't quite so sure." OK, but it took you SIX MONTHS to notice this?
"We do have mixed feelings," said Inoue. "But because Tsuyoshi was supposed to be a male, she came here, and because she came here, we were able to take care of her since she was very small." Wait, you had MORE than six months?? It is not uncommon for the sex of polar bears to be misread, Inoue said, as their long hair makes it difficult to distinguish, especially when the bears are young. Tsuyoshi was pegged as a male three months after birth, Inoue said. That ALONE saves you from being 'Today's Idiot.' | |
| Posted by:Free Radical |
| #6 They's be a glitch in the [California] Pre-Nup??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-11-27 17:19 |
| #5 Humans as well. It happened to me once when I was stuck on a mountainside in a snowstorm and getting hyperthermia. Reaching inside my pants to take a pee, I kinda freaked when it wasn't there. My penis had retracted completely inside my body. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2008-11-27 16:43 |
| #4 It's just shrinkage...." /George Castanza |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2008-11-27 13:57 |
| #3 I get hydrodynamic in cold water. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-11-27 12:34 |
| #2 Hydrodynamism Quit being a stranger. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-11-27 11:46 |
| #1 And once we started to look at things that way What things? On a serious note the reason male humans have scrotums is to cool testiculae since human spermtaozoids die very fast at 37 degrees. But given where polar bears live the genitalia of their males are certainly hidden in their fur or perhaps even semi-internal. In cetacens they are only visible when aroused, rest of time they are carried internally for improved hydrodynamism. |
| Posted by: JFM 2008-11-27 11:33 |