Mercury affects the behaviour of white ibises by “turning them homosexual”, with higher doses resulting in males being more likely to pair with males. [...]
The team fed white ibises on food pellets that contained concentrations of mercury equivalent to those measured in the shrimp and crayfish that make up the birds’ wetland diet.
The higher the dose of mercury in their food pellets, the more likely a male bird was to pair with another male.
We have reason to be skeptical: These are things called “ibises” and they’re hanging out with British reporters. Of course they’re gay. Those aren’t BALD EAGLES. Eat as much mercury as you’d like, America. [BBC]
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Good times for GOPers. They loves their mercury poisoning thanks to environmental deregulation and they really hates the Homos (when they're not looking at Gay porn for "research" or trolling for dick that is.)
On the bright side, the pellets also cured their syphilis.
Is Mercury the new Ministry of Sound? That would make 'ibises' the new American frat boys on semester abroad.
It's not gay. It's European!
The team fed white ibises on food pellets that contained concentrations of mercury equivalent to those measured in the shrimp and crayfish that make up the birds’ wetland diet.
This is fabulous news for Louisiana!
Laissez les bon temps rouler!
Yes, its the Mercury. Now squeal like a pig…
Oh, THAT mercury. I thought they meant the Freddie type, which was capable of turning most everything gay.
No, you're right, it is the Freddie type: when the Scientists were asked how it happened, they said "It's a kind of magic"…
More proof that anal thermometers turn you gay.
God only knows what those infrared ear thermometers are doing.
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1. So it is a choice.
2. This explains all the lesbian porn among sushi eaters.
Tuna is best cooked on the tongue.
It seems these birds are everybody’s favorite species for sexual experiments. No wonder they’re all messed up.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2010/07/bronx_zoo_tr...
The Scarlet Ibis is now Flaming.
Mercury's got those ghey wings on his feet. Who didn't see this coming?
I believe it, just look at how many people Freddie Mercury turned gay.
Hey, this might actually get the Republitards on board to fight pollution if they think it makes you gay, because they hate the gays more than they love pollution (maybe). Whatever works! Let's tell them that coal-plant emissions make you gay, too.
I heard upper-class tax cuts make you gay. Pass it on.
"Not that there's anything wrong with that", added the science team, while chugging the filling of dozens of thermometers.
Weren't ibises one of the bad guys on the original Battlestar Galactica?
Sounds like mercury will be the next generation's crystal meth for party people.
No gay ibises (ibi?) in the Royal Army now!
Well, ectually, the Brits are okay with teh ghey in their military, as I've learned from the once-hourly DADT debates on MSNBC. Turns out it wasn't any trouble at all.
well, you see, the ibises always went to Ibiza and wore spangly short shorts and waved glo sticks. so, you know. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.
I knew there was something dangerous about rectal thermometers.
It's not a choice – it's a kind of magic!
It also makes them mad as hatters.
See, homosexuality is a choice!… If you don't wanna be gay just starve to death you damn birds
Well, the Brits would know about being gay.
The study is flawed. Some of the ibises were just picking up a piece of toilet paper.
This explains why the University of Miami mascot is named 'Sebastian'.
Mars, I would have expected. But Mercury? This is a shock.
Not the first time bad tuna has turned somebody gay, I'm thinking.
I thought this was going to be about FREDDIE Mercury. Never mind.
Ibis be goin' to get me some shrimp etoufée or a mess o' boiled mudbugs. See ya' at the Mardi Gras parade!
I see the study was done in Florida and Sri Lanka. Now I haven't been to Hikkadewa since 1980 but I was in South Beach last week- and there were a lot of gay ibises(if that is what you are calling the hot guys there now)
How disappointing. I was expecting an article on ibis millinery.
Wawawawait. You're saying Jeremy Piven is gay?
Very Nice
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