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Among the grants awarded this year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences–which administers the 1940 legacy left by Torsten Amund Amundsson to fund homosexuality studies–was about $6,300 to examine whether homosexual behavior in fruit flies is genetic in origin.
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In February scientists reported from Malaysia in the journal Nature that they’d found a male mammal, the Dayak fruit bat, that lactates. According to Dr. Charles Francis, “[The bats] looked like perfectly good males with large testes, but from the other end I could see they also had well-developed breasts.” The only other male mammals to lactate have been a few specially bred goats and sheep, which produce milk in extremely small quantities.
Reuters News Service reported in February that a male flasher has been plaguing Adelaide, Australia, since April 1992 and has exposed himself to nearly 50 females. The man is distinguishable by the padlock he wears around his genitals.
