Maybe? Biblically-speaking there’s also what Jael supposedly did to Sisera which is possibly even more brutal, I mean a tent peg?! Plus he only got milk not wine?
* Speciifically PSR B1957+20 some 6,500 light years away. See :
Plus the whole literay trope and now we add an owl to the list I guess.
John Moralessays
StevoR, Superbowl.
Ridanasays
Ok, I got the pun, but who were these “experts” who told them owls have penises? oO
ardipithecussays
It’s common in many owl species for females to attack males they don’t like. In the wild, the males can usually escape, as they are smaller and more agile. In captivity, not so much.
His cloaca probably had nothing to do with it.
rqsays
If that’s her in the photo, then she looks very comfortably smug about it all.
A good answer to “but what about the menz!?”
Not being USAnian, I actually had to read this article to get the pun.
(I actually thought it would be about an owl — and it was!)
Okay, I read the article and still don’t get the pun. Wasn’t the Black Widow a superhero as well as a type of arachnid and a pulsar?*
Judith makes me think there’s an allusion here to the Holofernes story and artwork :
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-judith-beheading-holofernes-art-historys-favorite-icon-female-rage
Maybe? Biblically-speaking there’s also what Jael supposedly did to Sisera which is possibly even more brutal, I mean a tent peg?! Plus he only got milk not wine?
* Speciifically PSR B1957+20 some 6,500 light years away. See :
https://earthsky.org/space/psr-b195720-black-widow-pulsar-highest-resolution-observation
Plus, yes, there’s the Latrodectus genus of spiders and yes, there’s a series of superheroes with that moniker :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_(Marvel_Comics)
Plus the whole literay trope and now we add an owl to the list I guess.
StevoR, Superbowl.
Ok, I got the pun, but who were these “experts” who told them owls have penises? oO
It’s common in many owl species for females to attack males they don’t like. In the wild, the males can usually escape, as they are smaller and more agile. In captivity, not so much.
His cloaca probably had nothing to do with it.
If that’s her in the photo, then she looks very comfortably smug about it all.
@4.John Morales : Okay. Thanks.