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That means, since I buy my sugar at CostCo, where the smallest bag is 50 pounds, that my testicles would have to weigh about 550 pounds to compete with those of the bushcricket.
Todd Hartley: An Impassioned Call for a National Scientist Registry Todd Hartley 2010
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Scientists have found a bushcricket species with testicles that account for up to 14% of its body weight.
Cricket Has Biggest Testicles Of Any Animal, Used For Promiscuity: Study The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Apparently the competition measured testicles as a percentage of overall body mass, and one species of bushcricket had ones that made up nearly 14 percent of its weight.
Todd Hartley: An Impassioned Call for a National Scientist Registry Todd Hartley 2010
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Apparently the competition measured testicles as a percentage of overall body mass, and one species of bushcricket had ones that made up nearly 14 percent of its weight.
Todd Hartley: An Impassioned Call for a National Scientist Registry Todd Hartley 2010
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That means, since I buy my sugar at CostCo, where the smallest bag is 50 pounds, that my testicles would have to weigh about 550 pounds to compete with those of the bushcricket.
Todd Hartley: An Impassioned Call for a National Scientist Registry Todd Hartley 2010
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But the tuberous bushcricket may cause this theory to be revisited, say the authors.
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The tuberous bushcricket Platycleis affinis has testes that amount to 13.8 percent of its body mass -- the rough equivalent of a man hauling around tyre-sized testicles weighing 10
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The tuberous bushcricket beat all rivals in a testicular comparison of 21 species of bushcrickets, also known in North America as katydids.
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But the tuberous bushcricket may cause this theory to be revisited, say the authors.
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Karim Vahed, a behavioural ecologist at Britain's University of Derby, shows a sample of a bushcricket.
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