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Air Force Sonic Booms Ignite Crocodiles' Sex Drives

Posted by samzenpus on from the making-beautiful-booms-together dept.

It turns out the key to a male crocodile's heart is a sonic boom. Crocodiles at an Israeli farm have begun making mating calls in response to sonic booms created by air force planes breaking the sound barrier. From the article: "The males have already begun their mating calls, described by the newspaper as 'the sound a vehicle breaking,' normally reserved for the crocodiles' spring mating season, Israeli newspaper Maariv reported. David Golan of the Hamat Gadar crocodile farm in the Golan Heights, believes the reptiles were responding to the sonic booms, wrongly believing they were the calls of rival males encroaching on their territory

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  1. Correlation != Causation by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I actually think they have it backwards.

    I think the crocodiles have increased their sex drive for their own reasons, and through an incredibly long chain of butterfly effects, like a Rube Goldberg machine, this has caused more pilots than usual to break the sound barrier.

    1. Re:Correlation != Causation by dtmos · · Score: 4, Funny

      ... through an incredibly long chain of butterfly effects ...

      It's not that long. Who wouldn't go faster if chased by amorous crocodiles?

    2. Re:Correlation != Causation by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 2

      "Don't worry! It doesn't want to eat you, it only wants to rape you!"

      So... no foreplay?

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    3. Re:Correlation != Causation by x2A · · Score: 2

      I would say the USA was taken over rather than occupied... occupied implies that the previous inhabitants were left alive, and that's hardly the case. And no, I'm not an American, nor would I want to visit such a country.

      I do also know that "negotiate" has a rather special meaning for Israel.

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  2. Re:It also ignites... by aquila.solo · · Score: 2

    by TrisexualPuppy (976893) on 16:32 20 December 2010 (#34622660)

    ...However, since it has sex, no matter how obscure it is, it's on the front page. Nice job, Slashdot!

    I can't quite put my finger on it, but I know there's some irony here...

  3. Re:Sonic booms by Threni · · Score: 4, Informative

    I looked it up. It's a result of the Israel airforce deliberately flying too fast and too low over the land they illegally occupy to traumatize the civilian population, and cause miscarriages amongst the animals which form.....woah! Is that the new Justin Bieber single?

  4. 'the sound a vehicle breaking,' by Kupfernigk · · Score: 2
    That would be "thump, bang, oh shit, can I see your documents?"

    Can nobody spell "brakes" nowadays? Or is this some obscure dig at Toyota's overpublicised little problem?

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