Sometimes it pays to be the lesser of two weevils

摘要

The latest sex tapes confirm it: size doesn't matter - so long as you're sneaky. Smaller male New Zealand giraffe weevils use their diminutiveness to their advantage to mate with females under the noses of their larger peers. The bizarre-looking male giraffe weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis) uses its enormous snout, or rostrum - which can make up over half its body length -to joust with other males and win mating rights. But some males have snouts just one-sixth the length of those of their most well-endowed peers.