Something Fishy’s Going On Here

According to a report in New Scientist, female trout fake orgasms. “They trick the males into releasing their sperm,” says Torbjoern Jaervi of Sweden’s National Board of Fisheries. The more they fake it, the more males that swim up before they release their eggs, Jaervi says, allowing them to choose the best mate to fertilize them. During the study of brown trout, the researchers found that the females faked spawning behavior in 69 out of 117 matings. (AFP) ...Which is pretty much the same statistic for first marriages.