{"id":595,"date":"2021-08-08T21:50:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2021-08-08T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T21:50:21","slug":"kangaroo-genitals-are-weirder-than-you-ever-thought-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Kangaroo genitals are weirder than you ever thought possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336im_\/https:\/\/ci6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ot_EWbkfI3lvtK6UBBq3lcMZOEAh7jQ3ppizPSbLkfj5ChkO9ms1wrcCdofrZ6Blly3PQayYZh5pSoQW1WFbL3Ux_rVpMAUYPupgW0jAjHDShDe9P8TPrQ1rUDQhTfTyVNBylw=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/180488390_b2a104ef19.jpeg?w=500&amp;h=373\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336\/http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pierre_pouliquin\/180488390\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo by Pierre Pouliquin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Animal lovers, listen up: I know critters are cute and everything, but you should know that&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>nature is fucking weird.&nbsp;<\/em>And nothing fucks weirder than kangaroos.Science blogger to the stars Ed Yong watched a documentary about \u2018roo junk so you don\u2019t have to, and here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Kangaroo testicles are above the penis and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/edyong209\/status\/192217549218390016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">highly mobile<\/a>.\u201d<\/li><li>Kangaroos have three vaginas. The outside two are for sperm and lead to two uteruses. The middle one is for giving birth.<\/li><li>The urinary tract goes through the middle of the three vaginas, which may be why joeys are so small (<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/edyong209\/status\/192219267280814080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40,000 times smaller<\/a>&nbsp;than adult kangaroos) \u2014 there\u2019s no room for a bigger birth canal with the urinary tract in the way.<\/li><li>To go with the two sperm-vaginas, male kangaroos often have two-pronged penises.<\/li><li>Because they have two uteruses plus a pouch, female kangaroos can be perpetually pregnant.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336im_\/https:\/\/ci4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bKm36MYfSg0HY-XiEM83s7ZF7b_ejHA8Yao3yVrqSih3q2Tz1iSLqrtO4EcfdRGaqNziJ35vVZpZBfELcSj1ycMp7WZZ2-MiEy72jW3yF3E7gyZQ6utV1CxO=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/grist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/kangaroo-vaginas.jpeg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annotated image by Ed Yong.Also possibly important to marsupial sex lives: Kangaroos can unhinge their lower jaws.<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190718091336\/http:\/\/grist.org\/list\/kangaroo-genitals-are-weirder-than-you-ever-thought-possible-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Story by Jess Zimmerman.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Pierre Pouliquin. Animal lovers, listen up: I know critters are cute and everything, but you should know that&nbsp;&nbsp;nature is fucking weird.&nbsp;And nothing fucks weirder than kangaroos.Science blogger to the stars Ed Yong watched a documentary about \u2018roo junk so you don\u2019t have to, and here\u2019s what you need to know: Kangaroo testicles are&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/?p=595\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kangaroo genitals are weirder than you ever thought possible<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spreadtheblessing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}