Turns out Australia hasn’t banned *all* guns
by digby
A male kangaroo’s forearm size could be a sexually selected trait and help them find a mate, a new study has found.
In fact, male kangaroos frequently adopt poses to show off their muscly arms to females, the authors have said.
[…]
Associate Professor Rod Wells, an Australian marsupial expert from Flinders University, said big arm muscles may offer males “additional advantage from either females finding big forelimbs sexy or alternatively the males which win the right to access the females are then strong enough to overpower any unwilling female.”“Males are not simply getting bigger but their forelimbs are getting disproportionally bigger not only in bone length and diameter but also in muscle mass. The authors relate this to male-male competition for right to inseminate females,” he said.
Hey, if you’ve got it flaunt it.
And I have to say that Kangaroo looks pretty hot …
.