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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic
TIL that G. Murray Levick, the first scientist to study Adélie penguins in Antarctica (1911-12) was so horrified by their “sexual depravity” that he wrote about it in Greek so that “only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed”.
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>During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.
All I could think while reading that article was “huh, humans display the same behaviors.”
Unsettling af.
Far cry from pebbles.
so, nature is weird. But this behavior also helps ensure the species live on. Until a group of non-complaint female penguins rise up.
2 girls and a tux.
For some reason as I read the article in my mind the late Burgess Meredith’s portrayal of The Penguin on the 60’s Batman show played over and over…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rag_UHK5lT0