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NEW BERLIN, Wis. Cockroaches are the subject of nightmares for some people. But for one Wisconsin company, they re a sport.Batzner Pest Management held its 13th annual Running of the Roaches on Thursday in New Berlin.Nine Madagascar hissing cockroaches ran three heats on the custom-built 8-foot-long track. Each roach had an employee guide it with a
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The Japanese quail has an interesting mating strategy: the females prefer to mate with the losers of fights. Or do they A new scientific paper on the topic makes me want to set up a quail fighting ring to find out for sure. Generally, when two males fight in order to mate, it the winner who walks off with the female. The Japanese quail bucks the trend. According to one paper, the female quails tend to choose the loser in any given fight. Maybe. The paper is liberal in its definition of the loser. It has good reasons. There are ethical concerns about forcing two quails to violently fight each other. Instead of putting the two male quai
stanley mugs ls in one cage, they ;re both put in a cage that split into two segments by a clear plexiglass barrier. The male quails were put on either side of the barrier. Whichever male pecked the plexiglass the most was considered the winner. Watching all of this from behind plexiglass of her own was a female quail. As soon as all three were put in a cage together, the female was much more likely to hang out with the loser of the fight. Females who hadn ;t witnessed the fights showed no preference for either winners or losers when they were all thrown together. There a reason why the female preferred the loser of these fights. After arranging another round of
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