Turns out penguins are rapists pedophiles and necrophiliacs

[Haggis_McMutton]

It was the sight of a young male Adélie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.

Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adélies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. 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.

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed. Back in Britain he produced a paper (in English), titled Natural History of the Adélie Penguin. However, the section about the animal's sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it was removed to preserve decency. Levick then used this material as the basis for a separate short paper, Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic



Awww, so cute

[huamulan]

Mallards reproduce via gang rape.

[2dimes]

Levick then used this material as the basis for a separate short paper, Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

Of course they keep the good pr0n to themselves.

[Symmetry]

God created them that way, so it's all ok.

[Juan_Bottom]

Yeah that's why God put them on their own cold continent. To protect their culture from Europeans.

[nietzsche]

inb4 natty makes a drama out of this.

[Army of GOD]

I'd rape a dead, prepubescent penguin too. They're fucking hot.

[Dukasaur]

You didn't quote the best part of the article.

Levick's lost masterpiece certainly has its eye-watering moments with its descriptions of male Adélies who gather in "little hooligan bands of half a dozen or more and hang about the outskirts of the knolls, whose inhabitants they annoy by their constant acts of depravity".

Sounds like a pretty typical scene outside a modern high school.

[natty dread]

inb4 natty makes a drama out of this.

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[saxitoxin]

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed.

... as well as Greeks who'd be more likely to be titilated than offended.

[BigBallinStalin]

These penguins are the Absence of God.

[john9blue]

so other highly evolved fauna like sex?

and don't have cultural taboos to stop them from enjoying it in any way possible?

gee whiz what a shock

guess we should hold them to human standards of morality and criticize them for being horrible creatures

[Juan_Bottom]

Not raping babies isn't an example of human standard of morality.

I'm not even buying the argument that most animals mate with rape.

[Juan_Bottom]

Or practice necrophilia.

[MeDeFe]

I think one could use those penguins to make an argument for sex-ed in schools.

[AAFitz]

I think that's the premise for the next Batman sequel...

[hotfire]

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.

[thegreekdog]

Levick blamed this "astonishing depravity" on "hooligan males" and wrote down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would understand the horrors he had witnessed.

... as well as Greeks who'd be more likely to be titilated than offended.

They don't look that much like sheep to me.

[jonesthecurl]

I'd heard (can't provide a source, this is just a vague random memory surfacing) that penguins actually can't distinguish between the sexes.
Didn't know about the necrophilia tho.

[BigBallinStalin]

I don't blame them about the necrophilia. It's pretty cold up there, so it's easy to make a mistake.

[Neoteny]

Nevermind

[greenoaks]

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.

we are the same.

btw, does this hankerchief smell of chloroform?

[Juan_Bottom]