Sunday, October 2, 2011

Beer-mating beetle study shortlisted for funniest research

An Australian jewel beetle is seen on a beer bottle in this undated handout photo. University of Toronto professor Darryl Gwynne and his Australian colleague David Rentz were the winners in the biology category of the Ig Noble Awards for their paper on beer bottle-mating beetles. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ho-Darryl Gwynne

The article consists of "a Research co-authored by University of Toronto professor Darryl Gwyne and his Australian colleague David Rentz were the winners in the biology category... A parody of the Nobel Prizes, the Ig Nobel Prizes are handed out annually by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research."  Gwyne and Rentz were giving this award for the research they found with beetles. It was said that a beetle tried mating with a bottle since the bottle had a huge resemblance to a “Super female”. The beetle died in the scorching heat of the sun and was later eaten by ants. In the long run, this can affect tremendously because the beetles will think that beer bottles are more like super females than what they really are. Throwing beer bottles around inappropriately shows that this not only affects the environment but also an effect in animals’ life. 

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