QUOTE (laura @ Dec 22 2005, 08:45 PM)

that's hardly a good evolutionary technique, i mean, if they get excited(ie scared) when being chased by a predator they'd just keel over and then the predator would eat it. what has nature got against them? poor things.

Absolutely- hence they can only survive by being bred artificially. Presumably the act of copulation doesn't excite them (no stiff jokes please!

) or they'd never propagate the species!