{"id":1515,"date":"2005-07-12T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2005-07-11T17:29:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T22:29:35","slug":"fake-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2005\/07\/12\/fake-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>Possessive cockerels use fake sex to keep their hens faithful. By merely mounting females &#8211; without bothering to waste precious sperm &#8211; cocks ensure their partners will not go looking for male competitors to fertilise them, a new study suggests. The finding may explain why males of many species &#8211; from insects to mammals &#8211; engage in seemingly meaningless sperm-free sex. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn7657&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" target=\"_blank\">Sperm-free sex keeps hens happily faithful<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possessive cockerels use fake sex to keep their hens faithful. By merely mounting females &#8211; without bothering to waste precious sperm &#8211; cocks ensure their partners will not go looking for male competitors to fertilise them, a new study suggests. The finding may explain why males of many species &#8211; from insects to mammals &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}