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Because the critters deserve equal time.
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I don’t know about you, but I could name a few people whose relentless sex drive gets them in trouble as well.
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Proof positive governments will tax anything and everything.
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“Permanent physical fusion”? Imagine if that had happened to you on that blind date back in the ‘90’s?
Oh, the horror.
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A parasite that doesn’t grow a pair of balls until after he’s attached to you?
I think we’ve all dated that guy at one time or another.
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River's world..... 
I don’t know whether to be amused or appalled by this post. 😬😳 Can I be both???
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Yes.
Yes you can…
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I knew about taxing the cows, but didn’t know about the quolls or the angelfish. Man is crazy, but nature is weird.
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I am glad not to still be attached to number one.
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You and me both.
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Drops dead after his FIRST mating session? I’d say drops dead after his ONLY mating session. Poor guy.
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I hope it was worth it..
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Me too!
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Your right, I can’t use this new of critters and their weird sexual and gastrointestinal habits.
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Score!
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(1) The MALES drop dead? Oh hell know, these creatures better get more Woke and create a diverse opportunity at fatality. (2) Will the New Zealand equivalent of the IRS audit cow pastures? Pretty sure the burps will be long gone and difficult to prove. (3) I guess they are serious about “mate for life”
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Cow pasture auditing can’t be far behind…
Though if you’re behind a cow I suggest careful foot placement.
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Taxing cow burps sounds like a missed opportunity for our dear friends at the IRS.. Then again, I might have missed that in the tax code. The male quolls certainly deserve a better fate, but one can assume they passed away smiling.
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Nothing like going out with a bang…
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Well said.👍
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These are all just things that have evolved over the millions of years the life has existed on earth. The really amazing thing is that, just like humans, these “weird” traits and actions have survived. What would a male quoil think about human males not dropping dead after one breeding season? He would think we are totally unfathomable. The lucky guy doesn’t doesn’t have to live to see what jerks his children would become.
I applaud nature for trying out all kinds of possibilities. Chances are, someday in the future they will get things right. Apparently Nature got crocodiles and cockroaches perfect, because they haven’t changed in millions ov yezrs — that we know of.
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And cockroaches will outlive us all….
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Yup!
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Please oh please, if reincarnation is real, do NOT have me come back as a male quoll.
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Preach.
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So, outside of the obvious – not having to hang around to bring up the little bleeders – what, exactly, is the evolutionary benefit of being semelparous? Mind you, it still beats being a cockroach…
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Unless it’s to enforce monogamy, I’m sure I don’t know.
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I can see little to recommend it…
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I’ve never “dated that guy,” but if it’s anything like dating Trump, you’re probably in for a Stormy experience.
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