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Jun 2019
44m 32s

How Porcupines Mate, the Bizarre Sex Hab...

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About this episode
In this episode of The Brain Food Show, we start by looking at whether or not male humans can get pregnant and carry a baby to full term naturally. (Spoiler- yes and yes. And even breastfeed too! It doesn’t even require fancy science or advanced medical techniques.) Moving on to the meat of today’s episode, we jump into a variety of bizarre animal mating pr ... Show More
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