What's In a Name? The World's Second-Smallest Phallus

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/21/Expedition_Spotlight_Sao_Tome

Of the 200-plus species herpetologist Dr. Robert Drewes and his team discovered on their expedition to Sao Tome and Principe, a stinkhorn mushroom called Phallus drewesii stands out from the crowd. The mushroom, named after Dr. Drewes, is the second-smallest member of the genus Phallus.

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Fresh from the field, the California Academy of Sciences' curator of herpetology, Bob Drewes, and co-manager of the Naturalist Center, Roberta Ayres, talk about their recent expedition to São Tomé.

One of two islands forming a single nation off the western equatorial coast of Africa and more than 17 million years old, São Tomé may be the last undisturbed paradise on earth. This sparsely inhabited island is home to hundreds of species of flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. They discuss the island's unique biodiversity, and explore how improved education can help protect it from environmental threats. - California Academy of the Sciences

Dr. Robert Drewes is Curator of the Department of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences. He completed his undergraduate degree at San Francisco State and his Ph.D. in Biology at UCLA, focusing on the evolutionary relationships of the dominant treefrog family of Africa, Madagascar, and the Seychelles Islands. His graduate career at UCLA also instilled an ongoing fascination with environmental physiology (the study of how individual organisms physically interact with the environment).

Drewes' ongoing research on the systematics, natural history, and behavior of African reptiles and amphibians began with a year-long trip to East Africa in 1969.

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[RenegadeTimes]

this is true cause I met the first species of smallest phallus in the world....

and his name was Fred.

[GaseousAnomaly001]

lol "He does mushrooms."

[cristop5]

Dr Drewes was pretty thick skinned to allow it to be named after him

[LordNapalm]

Oh dick jokes... fun times.

[poprockssuck87]

First!

It seems to make sense here.

[TheMetalHead102]

Man I haven't laughed all day... this cheered me up...

Thank you!

[TPhreak]

It grows limp! xD

[edenscancer]

damnit! lol

[edenscancer]

in b4 small phallus jokes

[ndyt]

go go gadget Phallus!