{"id":570,"date":"2009-10-30T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/10\/another_contender_for_best_blo\/"},"modified":"2009-10-30T09:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T20:03:05","slug":"another-contender-for-best-blo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/10\/another-contender-for-best-blo\/","title":{"rendered":"another contender for &#8216;best blog post title&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it would be hard to beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathstat.uottawa.ca\/~rsmith\/Zombies.pdf\">&#8216;When zombies attack&#8217;<\/a>. That was, until <a href=\"http:\/\/sciblogs.co.nz\/code-for-life\/2009\/10\/28\/fellatio-by-fruit-bats-prolongs-copulation-time\/\">Grant alerted me to this one<\/a>: &#8216;Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time&#8217;. The fiend! How did he beat me to this?? <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/notrocketscience\/2009\/10\/holy_fellatio_batman_fruit_bats_use_oral_sex_to_prolong_actu.php\">Ed Yong has written all about it on his blog,<\/a> <i>Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/i>, and you can find the original PLoS paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007595\">here<\/a>. (Now I come to think of it, I did see a male fruit bat doing a spot of what looked awfully like masturbation against the mesh of his cage, when we were in Vanuatu last year&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it would be hard to beat &#8216;When zombies attack&#8217;. That was, until Grant alerted me to this one: &#8216;Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time&#8217;. The fiend! How did he beat me to this?? 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