Bat Fellatio!?!

[Coxie]

Whilst perusing the IG Nobel winners from last year I learnt some fun things including the Bat fellatio phenomenon:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007595

Anyway... I thought I would share this with all the bat lovers I know!

One of my other favourites from the IG Nobels was the whalecopter, a bespoke miniture helicopter whose payload is an upturned petree dish which hovers over the blowhole of a whale at sea to discover the contents of its discharge... Genius! 

Much friendlier than harpooning the thing to discover that it is in fact healthy.

If only I had a lab... Mwahh hah hah! 

 

[tony from suffolk]

Sorry Coxie, but that sucks.

 

[Fulk]

Ohh, I see it's March 30, not April 1st!

 

[Coxie]

No it's true...  It won in September 2010 along with a heap of other completely random and bizarre studies.

The website makes for an interesting read:  http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

 

[Amy]

Well if you just watched your own QI show, you'd know the whale-helicopter thing already! 

 

[Fulk]

Thanks, Coxie,  for the link to improbable.com where I found this:

PHYSICS PRIZE. Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, and Douglas Smith of the University of California, San Diego, USA, for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots.
REFERENCE: "Spontaneous Knotting of an Agitated String," Dorian M. Raymer and Douglas E. Smith, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 104, no. 42, October 16, 2007, pp. 16432-7.

I think that the same applies to rope.

 

[Elaine]

I can make sex last longer by chatting away to Hugh about his mum.

Much simpler.