A few years ago, tism and I were sitting in a restaurant. There were two guys at the next table and one of them was going on and on about his super awesome job looking after celebrity yachts. He was describing all the fancy boats he had supposedly looked after, name dropping left and right. Finally, he was describing Mel Gibson’s yacht, and he said all the barstools were upholstered in (and this is a direct quote) “elephant nut sacks”. The second guy, who hadn’t said a word up to this point, finally spoke up and said “Actually… Elephants don’t HAVE balls.” This was followed by a stunned silence and moderate back-pedalling.

Of course we looked it up later, and sure enough, it’s true. “Actually… Elephants don’t have balls” has become a catch-phrase. It’s surprising how often you can work it into a conversation,

I needed to look:

…most mammals have the testes outside the body because sperm apparently needs to be produced at a slightly lower temperature than normal body temperature.
Elephants have a lower core body temperature than most other mammals so don’t need the testes to be outside the body for them to produce viable sperm.

Neat! Although, I’ll never look at Babar the same way again.

My two cents but all testes should be on the inside. It’s a flawed, evolutional design. Genitalia exposed.. the horrors.

I’m not sure I’m qualified to comment on that design… I’m only a casual user of the system, not an admin. ;)