LISTEN!

 

A LITTLE BIRDIE TOLD ME

 

LET'S DO IT (LET'S FALL IN LOVE) : ELLA FITZGERALD : WRITTEN BY COLE PORTER

This song, written by Cole Porter in 1928, got new lyrics by Noel Coward in the 1950's that include the words "Aly Khan and King Farouk do it."  

Does Ella Fitzgerald's version include those words?

HE'S ONE LUCKY BEE

DANCING BEES

HE'S HORNY AS A GOAT and THAT ATTRACTS FEMALE GOATS!

HUFF POST: GOAT SMELL FEMALES PHEROMONES   by Brian Owens  of the Huffington Post.          


EXCERPTION:

Anyone who has ever spent time around goats knows they have a certain smell. By carefully analyzing eau de male goats, researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Feb. 27 have now identified a novel, citrus-scented ingredient that speaks directly to the females. It acts on female goats' brains to turn their reproductive systems on.

The distinctive aroma of goats does more than just make barnyards extra fragrant. Male goats can use their heady scent to make female goats ovulate simply by being near them.
Researchers had ascribed this 'male effect' to chemicals known as primer pheromones — a chemical signal that can cause long-lasting physiological responses in the recipient. Examples of primer pheromones are rare in mammals; the male effect in goats and sheep, and a similar effect in mice and rats, where the presence of males can speed up puberty in females, are the only known cases. But exactly what substances are at work and how has remained a mystery.   

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I've always wondered if this same thing is what makes humans attracted to each other - or not!

MATT RIDLEY ON BIRD ADULTERY IN THE NORDIC FOREST

Excerpt from page 223 of Matt Ridley's book THE RED QUEEN

..." Nordic forests seem to be full of deceitful adulterers... some male pied flycatchers in the forest of Scandinavia manage to be polygamous by holding two territories, each with a female in it... Two teams of researchers have studied the birds and come to different conclusions about what is going on. The Finns and the Swedes say that the mistress is deceived into believing the male is unmarried. The Norwegians say that since the wife sometimes visits the mistress's nest and may try to drive her away; the mistress can be under no illusions. She accepts the fact that her mate may desert her for his wife but hopes that if things go wrong at the wife's next - they often do - he will come back to help her raise her young. He gets away with it only when the two territories are so far apart that the wife cannot visit the mistress's territory often enough to persecute her. In other words, according to the Norwegians, men deceive their wives about their affairs, but not their mistresses.