Polar Bears with Two Sets of Testicles

myshirt · 18-10-2017 08:43AM #1

What's all this about global plastic pollution causing hormonal dysfunction in Polar Bears?

Surprised to have not seen it earlier on After Hours.

Will I Am Not · 18-10-2017 08:48AM

I drink out of a plastic bottle everyday. Where’s my spare set of balls?

joe stodge · 18-10-2017 08:50AM

OP is jealous.

Kimbot · 18-10-2017 08:50AM

I need to see evidence of this before I believe.

tomwaterford · 18-10-2017 08:55AM

Why are people counting polar bears balls

_Brian · 18-10-2017 09:01AM

Here’s a question, could this not just be an eveloutionary leap forward.

Most evolution consists of a genetic anomaly that gives a distinct survival advantage and so it eventually propagates a species.

I see this as far more likely than thinking it’s being caused by a discarded Dunn’s stores bag. If it were discarded plastic causing this then Irish men should have at least four testicles considering the volume of littering here.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 18-10-2017 09:08AM

The study is well over three years old. All hormones are affected by pollution and particularly hydrocarbons. Pesticides were also found to be a cause of hormone level changes.

McMurphy · 18-10-2017 09:19AM

Reminds me in the story of the compulsive gambler who was born with 3 testicles.

After losing a fortune to the local bookies one afternoon, and being down to his last tenner, and feeling determined to get one over on the house, he approached the bookie and asked him

"what odds will you give me that you and I Have 5 balls between us?"

The bookie thought about it for a minute or two then replied

"I'll give you 20 - 1"

The gambler thought his luck was finally in, and was Already spending his €200 in his head.

"Fair enough" he said to the bookie. "You go first"

The bookie unzipped his slacks, yanked down his boxers, grabbed his scrotum and said.

"Here's my one ball, where's your four?"

biko · 18-10-2017 09:53AM

I'm not going to go googling that.
Do you have a source OP?

myshirt · 18-10-2017 12:07PM

biko wrote: »

I'm not going to go googling that.
Do you have a source OP?

http://news.sky.com/story/plastic-pollution-leads-to-polar-bears-with-two-sets-of-testicles-11085873

diomed · 18-10-2017 12:16PM

The OP said polar bears. I assume he means two polar bears normally equipped.
Or did someone go rummaging through the fur of a polar bear checking its equipment while the other researchers stood about half a mile away sniggering?

Boom_Bap · 18-10-2017 12:27PM

The animated news reported on something similar years ago.

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razorblunt · 18-10-2017 01:11PM

One on the North, the other set on the South?

Polar Bears with Two Sets of Testicles

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