I wish Donald Trump was a slug …

I had no idea how busy life would be as the Tribe grows up – I thought that life would become a little more mellow… Oh how wrong I was!

The summer has disappeared and we’re already half way through the autumn term. I have a pile of posts that I haven’t yet posted …. but having just finished my copy for the parish magazine, I thought that I’d start with GD’s peculiar sighting of mating slugs.

The start of the slug mating dance
The start of the slug mating dance

Slugs are hermaphrodites having both male and female genitalia under their mantels. Mating begins as the slugs encircle each other and exude a disgusting, heavy layer of slime. When they are ready to mate, their genitals are extended. Both slugs can mate reciprocally with each partner inseminating and being inseminated.

I wonder how this will end ...
I wonder how this will end …

However, because their genitals are comparatively large and sticky they can find it difficult to separate from each other as they are corkscrewed together. This leads to slugs practising the rather odd and unenviable process of apophallation, whereby the penis of one of the slugs, is gnawed off. The dispossessed slug then continues life as a female. Fertilisation occurs when conditions are right for hatching. In tough times, slugs can fertilise themselves; hence the reason they are soooo difficult to get rid of.

We were all morbidly fascinated by this and given the political fever pitch that our neighbours across the pond find themselves in and the recent comments Mr Trump has made about women, I thought how wonderful it would be if Trump was a slug …  a bit random perhaps, but the political world seems to be in a strange place right now.

Author: Mother of the Tribe

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.