Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday june 28, 2004 City / District b3 or. Steven Ferguson holds a Walrus Penis Bone. The Walrus has the largest of any animal. Gillian Groenen / Winnipeg free press bigger May be better in North scientists say size of animal Penis Bones studied by Martin Zeilig a bout the size and shape of a Small baseball Bat the Bac ulum ? or Penis Bone ? was taken from a dead Walrus shot by an inuit Hunter off the Eastern coast of Baffin Island. I gave this As a gift to my younger son about 10 years ago. He would bring it to his class during show and Tell. Its Proba Bly from a Young male Walrus because its smaller than aver age says or. Steven Ferguson a research scientist at the department of fisheries and oceans fresh water Institute which is located at the University of Manitoba. He also produces Bac ulum from a red Fox a weasel and a Raccoon. They All seem like toothpicks compared to the 15 Inch club like Organ that came from a Walrus. Ferguson and or. Serge Lariviere a fellow biologist based in Quebec Are the authors of a heavily referenced paper Are Long Penis Bones an adaptation to High latitude snowy envy Cess in during their two year research on this project Ferguson and Lariviere also looked at elephant seals in Southern climes which use the harem system where one male has Many mates. The big dominant males compete with other males for Access to a number of females says Ferguson whose cur rent project involves studying whales and seals in the Arctic. The Winner in these Battles ends up with a harem to fertilize. But their Bac ulum is smaller relative to the size of males from Northern environments that use other mating he Points out that the Walrus has the largest Bac ulum ? up to one half metre in length ? of any creature on Earth. 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A lot of work has been done on How reproductive traits would relate to other kinds of life history traits like How Large at birth an animal is or How Long it might live says Ferguson a native of Northern Ontario who did his pad at the univer sity of Saskatchewan on the biology of Polar bears. In this Case we looked at 122 mammal carnivores around the world. We looked at what we could find in the literature regarding the length of the Bac ulum. We looked at the environment to see where the animal lived and How this might have changed the reproductive traits including Bac ulum for example Ferguson explains that limited mobility due to Snow accumulation May reduce the Chance of finding a Early Bird special 1995 Dodge intrepid mate and this selective pressure May have resulted in $5995 changes in Bac ulum size. Only 62,000 is one owner following copulation the female May use the length of the Roll Back to. Bac ulum to compare the Quality of the males he says. 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