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Because under the current electoral system, the presidential nominee picks his own running-mate, win or lose, Tuesday will be the end of the campaign trail for Jahncke, of Greenwich, Conn...
FEMALES SCORNED When males are in short supply, females can become fierce competitors. Female house sparrows and great reed warblers, whose males often take two mates, may try to smash a rival's eggs. Unattached smooth newt females will steal a male's sperm packet just as he deposits it for his mate. Midwife toads are even more proactive: jealous females will tear copulating couples asunder...
...whose same-and opposite-sex coupling seems as casual as a Hollywood air kiss and can include oral sex, French kissing and the missionary position. For these chimplike apes, sex serves as all-purpose social lubricant. Dolphins have no such excuses for their kinky behavior: they sometimes try to mate with sea turtles...
...male paper nautilus, whose idea of sex is to heave his manhood--and his genes--like a tiny torpedo into the female. Once implanted, the male organ serves as a built-in sperm bank. Similarly, the male anglerfish burrows into the belly of its much bigger mate and becomes a permanent, parasitic testicle. The female green spoon worm inhales the tiny male, who then resides in the androecium ("little man house"), a nook in the reproductive tract from which he fertilizes eggs...
HERMAPHRODITES Changing sexes is one thing; being both sexes at once is quite another. Hermaphrodites abound in the animal kingdom: how sensible to be able to mate with whoever happens to knock on the door! Among those that can truly swing both ways are the sea slug, the earthworm and the European giant garden slug. The black hamlet fish is the rare vertebrate in which members of a mating pair can take turns being male or female...