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Started by Sandy Eggo, November 10, 2010, 07:43:59 PM

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Researchers Find Biggest Sex Organs in Animal Kingdom

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QuoteA species of cricket has broken an unlikely world record: It has the largest testicles in relation to its body weight.

The Tuberous bushcricket's testicles account for 14 percent of its body weight. To put that in perspective, the testicles of a man weighing 200 pounds (91 kilograms) with that ball-to-body ratio would weigh 28 pounds (12.7 kg). [Image of cricket and its testicles]

The bushcricket, whose anatomical extremes are reported today (Nov. 9) in the journal Biology Letters, edges out the record of a species of fruit fly, Drosophila bifurca, whose testes to body weight ratio has been recorded as 10.6 percent. And lead researcher Karim Vahed, Reader in Behavioural Ecology at the University of Derby, confessed that he was stunned by the size of the creature's gonads.

"We couldn't believe the size of these organs -- they seemed to fill the entire abdomen," he said.

Vashid told FoxNews.com that he didn't set out on a hunt for the creature with the biggest sex organs -- that finding was simply a lucky break.
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