Fishy stuff

Going by this report, fish semen is likely to be good stuff. What about frog sperm then?

Some hamsters are probably too cute too be eaten. But maybe he's saving her up something special.

Closer to home, a fish gets a rare revenge on predatory primates. I doubt it's a swordfish though. It's probably a marine gar, also known as a needlefish (family Belonidae), which some believe is the probable species implicated in the Tanah (or was it Bukit) Merah legend, in which a smart little duck boy hatches the idea of using banana trunks to trap the skewering fish. Unfortunately, he wasn't that smart. The Sultan, fearing such mavericks, had his head off.

Also, according to this post on genes with mythological monikers, the Persephone gene results in a mutation that "allows dead necrotic flies to live." Does this mean we should be on the look out for an assault by a half-rotten flight of the living dead?

The same post points out the monkey-king gene, which is named after a majestic simian in ancient China who could transform his hair into numerous offspring. Methinks this should necessitate the meeting of a certain other monkey with proper tools of defoliation, lest the world be chilled by a plague of primates. In fact, it has probably begun already, as evidenced by a recent encounter where a ring of half-grown anthropoids attempted to extort a chicken pie from a full-grown cousin. Were this plot not foiled by a dashing duck, it would have resulted in a pie on the fly...

So it's probably not surprising that some monkeys maintain an unhealthy attachment to their ducks. Thankfully my own is kept safely away from the threat of furry f(r)iends.