Scorpion Love with No Butt: 2022 Ig Informal Lecture
Channel: Improbable Research
Date: 2022-11-28

The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK.

In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it.

The 2022 Ig Nobel Prize for Biology was awarded to Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, for studying whether and how constipation affects the mating prospects of scorpions.

REFERENCE: “Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Extreme Case of Autotomy: Does ‘Tail’ Loss and Subsequent Constipation Decrease the Locomotor Performance of Male and Female Scorpions?” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, Integrative Zoology, epub 2021.
[LINK: https://doi.org/10.1111/1749-4877.12604]

REFERENCE: “Fitness Implications of Nonlethal Injuries in Scorpions: Females, but Not Males, Pay Reproductive Costs,” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, American Naturalist, vol. 197, no. 3, March 2021, pp. 379-389.
[LINK: https://doi.org/10.1086/712759]

REFERENCE: ”‘Tail’ Autotomy and Consequent Stinger Loss Decrease Predation Success in Scorpions,” Solimary García-Hernández and Glauco Machado, Animal Behaviour, vol. 169, 2020, pp. 157-167.
[LINK: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.08.019]

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