penguins sex acts shocked polar explorer!

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At the time, Levick was so shocked by what he saw he recorded the events in Greek to disguise the information, at one point writing, "There seems to be no crime too low for these penguins."

For instance, on Nov. 10, 1911, Levick wrote in Greek (translated here): "This afternoon I saw a most extraordinary site [sic]. A Penguin was actually engaged in sodomy upon the body of a dead white throated bird of its own species. The act occurred a full minute, the position taken up by the cock differing in no respect from that of ordinary copulation, and the whole act was gone through down to the final depression of the cloaca."

In another entry, this one written in English on Dec. 6 of that year, he wrote: "I saw another act of astonishing depravity today. A hen which had been in some way badly injured in the hindquarters was crawling painfully along on her belly. I was just wondering whether I ought to kill her or not, when a cock noticed her in passing, and went up to her. After a short inspection he deliberately raped her, she being quite unable to resist him." (Homosexual Tales: 10 Gay Animals)

Levick described penguins that waddled about the colony's outskirts terrorizing any straying chicks as "little knots of hooligans" in his pamphlet. "The crimes which they commit are such as to find no place in this book, but it is interesting indeed to note that, when nature intends them to find employment, these birds, like men, degenerate in idleness."

Homosexual behaviors in animals are no longer cause for hiding data, or even a blush. (Case in point: Dutch biologist Kees Moeliker won an Ig Nobel prize in 2010 for the first report of dead gay duck sex.)

Plenty of animals are out of the closet, so to speak, from dolphins and killer whales to bonobos and greylag geese. Some estimates put the number of animal species that practice same-sex coupling at 1,500.

And while Levick may have viewed the interactions between penguins through an anthropomorphic lens, today that's not the case, the researchers note.

Necrophilia, for instance, is not the same in penguins and humans; Rather than being sexually aroused by a hot gal, male penguins are chemically wired to respond in certain ways to a seemingly compliant female of breeding age.

"I'm very pleased that, 97 years after Levick submitted it for publication, the study has finally been published," Russell said. In fact, no other studies on this colony have been published, the researchers note.

Some 100 copies of Levick's pamphlet were originally printed, though only two are known to exist today.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/adelie-penguins-sexual-acts-120611.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1

[Seldom]

god love em

[myco]

Dutch biologist Kees Moeliker won an Ig Nobel prize in 2010 for the first report of dead gay duck sex

HAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAH GOLD

imagine that one coming up in conversation

wow you won a nobel prize wat for?

the first report of dead gay duck sex

[qualia]

daily mail headlineS right here

"POLAR EXPLORER IN PENGUIN SEX ACT SHOCKER!"

"DUCK CAUGHT IN SICK NECROPHILIAC ORGY SHOCKER!"

[migraineur]

Sounds like 4chan....or the Vatican.

[Auxin]

I was a bit disappointed... the title made me wonder "why was a polar explorer naked with penguins anyway?"

[Wameron36]

Ahaha, we were told about this is an ecology class I had for some reason.

Funny birds.

[migraineur]

I was watching a documentary on penguins and the females were trading sex for rocks with the males who didn't have partners. The rocks that they used to build their nests with could be scarce during breeding season so the lone males would try to collect a stash to impress females and the females who only wanted some extra rocks would put out.