Botanical Wednesday: Algae in Love

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   procyon

   6 June 2012 at 7:33 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Spyrogyra porn?

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   jackjesberger

   6 June 2012 at 7:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Hey!!!!! Are those filaments old enough to have pictures shown of them conjugating on the web?

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   Glen Davidson

   6 June 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Small, green, and slimy.

   How could anything resist that combination?

   Glen Davidson

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   carlie

   6 June 2012 at 7:45 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   It’s like they’re giving lots of little kisses! Mmmmmwwah!

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   Antiochus Epiphanes

   6 June 2012 at 7:50 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   That’s how Zygnematales do.

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   ChasCPeterson

   6 June 2012 at 8:04 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   what’s ‘love’ got to do with it?

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   carlie

   6 June 2012 at 8:14 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   what’s love but a second-hand emotion?

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   some bastard on the net

   6 June 2012 at 8:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   Whoa, not sure if I should be looking at this.

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   PZ Myers

   6 June 2012 at 8:41 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

   What’s ‘love’ got to do with primate porn, either?

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    WhiteHatLurker

    6 June 2012 at 9:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    You and me baby ain’t nothin’ but mammals
    So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel

    Oh, wait a sec,:
    you and me baby ain’t nothin’ but algae
    so … hmmm

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    Ye Olde Blacksmith - in bed with absolute evil and a Spocktopus!

    6 June 2012 at 9:42 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    gasp! Such lasciviousness! Think of the children!

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    autumn

    6 June 2012 at 10:43 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Hey! Geez PZ, put the NSFW stuff under the fold!

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    Evader, the parasite-infested branch on the evolutionary tree

    6 June 2012 at 11:06 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Love is to porn, what bald is to hair colour?

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    JohnnieCanuck

    6 June 2012 at 11:08 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    I really don’t think it is right to be publishing security camera images of what happens in prisoner’s cells during their conjugal visits. How low can the privatization of US prisons go?

    This has to be from Texas, right?

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    mikmik

    7 June 2012 at 7:10 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Oh, that’s a picture of the lawyers unwinding after a busy day.

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    Antiochus Epiphanes

    7 June 2012 at 7:50 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?

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    Antiochus Epiphanes

    7 June 2012 at 7:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    Johnnie Canuck: har har. Prison sex. Comedy gold.

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    Sili

    7 June 2012 at 8:14 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    It looks like tiny hot water bottles.

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    jnorris

    7 June 2012 at 9:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment

    mikmik @ 15:
    Jackson Browne ‘Lawyers in Love’
    “Am I the only one who hears the screams
    And the strangled cries of lawyers in love”