From Harper’s February Findings:<\/p>\n
[M]ale serotine bats who mated in the attic of a Dutch church were found to have enormous penises that they used not for penetration but for manipulation.<\/em><\/p>\n So many questions here. Is the church attic integral to this phenomenon? Are the Netherlands integral to this phenomenon?<\/p>\n What do the male bats manipulate with those enormous penises? How<\/em> do the male bats use those penises for manipulation? Do those penises have opposable thumbs<\/a>? If not, I’m figuring all they can do with those penises — aside from the usual thing — is push dusty church objects around, providing that the church has dusty objects stored in its attic.<\/p>\n Are these the only bats on the earth who have this peculiarity? Can Darwin answer any of my questions?<\/p>\n Give me an item like this and look where my mind goes. I search endlessly for logic, for facts, for reasons why. And I came up with this, from the U.K.’s Natural History Museum<\/a>. (If you don’t like bats, don’t click on this link because your screen will be filled with a GIGANTIC picture of a serotine bat, and it has sharp teeth which can pierce through your screen and bite you in the neck.)<\/p>\n Turns out these bats do have a problem re sex so they’ve developed another way to mate. So it comes back to asking why these bats evolved in this way. I thought the lives of species were advanced through evolution, not made more problematic.<\/p>\n Last question. Can we consider this item as connected to the god problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Harper’s February Findings: [M]ale serotine bats who mated in the attic of a Dutch church were found to have enormous penises that they used not for penetration but for manipulation. So many questions here. Is the church attic integral … Continue reading