Perverted Penguins

[copacetic]

It was the sight of a young male Adelie 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 Adelies 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 Adelie 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 Adelie Penguin, which was privately circulated among a handful of experts.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/09/sexual-depravity-of-penguins-that-antarctic-scientist-dared-not-reveal/



I knew penguins were gay, but I'm shocked about the necrophilia!

 

[FrankCastle]

Penguins having sex with something cold and dead.
Hmmm sounds like the makings of a modern marriage.

 

[buyeye]

So it's ok because penguins do it. I wonder what you would think if penguins commited farm murders .

It would be ok because penguins do it too. Atheists please.

 

[mercurial]

Do the penguins even know if something is dead?

 

[Ekstasis]

maybe nobody told the stupid bird

 

[FrankCastle]

Do the penguins even know if something is dead?

If the carcass hasn't moved in 6 months then surely.

 

[mercurial]

If the carcass hasn't moved in 6 months then surely.

I don't believe penguins have the intelligence/awareness that something no longer lives. How many animals do?

I'd be happy if someone could give me links that prove otherwise.

 

[FrankCastle]

I don't believe penguins have the intelligence/awareness that something no longer lives. How many animals do?

I'd be happy if someone could give me links that prove otherwise.

Don't know about Penguins but I noticed Pigeons will refuse to come down for scattered crumbs if there's a dead bird in the vicinity.
Either they're incredibly dumb or insanely sick farkers.

 

[copacetic]

Do the penguins even know if something is dead?

In the article, it makes it pretty clear that the prevailing opinion is that a dead bird looks like a compliant bird to an uninitiated male.

I don't think penguins are really necrophiliacs, I just found the article funny - The notion of this information being suppressed because it was too hot for the scientists of the day to handle.

 

[buyeye]

Don't know about Penguins but I noticed Pigeons will refuse to come down for scattered crumbs if there's a dead bird in the vicinity.
Either they're incredibly dumb or insanely sick farkers.

In tropical climates a pungent smell quickly develops near a dead bird driving away anthing with a nose.

In arctict the smell would not develop but the bird would be mummyfied .

I won't pretend to be an expert in animal intelligence.

 

[mercurial]

In the article, it makes it pretty clear that the prevailing opinion is that a dead bird looks like a compliant bird to an uninitiated male.

I don't think penguins are really necrophiliacs, I just found the article funny - The notion of this information being suppressed because it was too hot for the scientists of the day to handle.

Oh, okay

 

[TheHiveMind]

Levick blamed this “astonishing depravity” on “hooligan males”..

Nah, it's because they have been oppressed by the more dominant penguins, unjustifiably, or something.. Murder and necro rape are just a natural consequence of that oppression, so really those prude b*****s had it coming..

 

[Geriatrix]

However, the section about the animal’s sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it was removed to preserve decency

LOL!
Let's deny reality because it offends us!
Penguins though, never trusts them...

 

[Unhappy438]

So it's ok because penguins do it. I wonder what you would think if penguins commited farm murders .

It would be ok because penguins do it too. Atheists please.

Yeah Atheists because this really constitutes to a lack of a deity.

 

[Geriatrix]

Penguins having sex with something cold and dead.
Hmmm sounds like the makings of a modern marriage.

So it's ok because penguins do it. I wonder what you would think if penguins commited farm murders .

It would be ok because penguins do it too. Atheists please.

What, pray-tell, are you on about?

 

[buyeye]

What, pray-tell, are you on about?

Read my other posts.

 

[Geriatrix]

Read my other posts.

Read the thread, still confused...:erm:

 

[buyeye]

Read the thread, still confused...:erm:

I extrapolated from our many debates with copa that his latent homosexuality and necrophilia was bothering him so much he had to dig up a study from the early 1900's about "perveted penguins" doing it so if it happenes in "nature" so us religious lunatics had it wrong.

Hate to see Boramk leave he forum though

 

[KaladinStormblessed]

So it's ok because penguins do it. I wonder what you would think if penguins commited farm murders .

It would be ok because penguins do it too. Atheists please.

Made me lol. A whole bunch of penguins breaking into someones house and stealing all their stuff after they kill them.

Could see them hiding in the fridge to ambush midnight snackers lol

 

[Geriatrix]

I extrapolated from our many debates with copa that his latent homosexuality and necrophilia was bothering him so much he had to dig up a study from the early 1900's about "perveted penguins" doing it so if it happenes in "nature" so us religious lunatics had it wrong.

Hate to see Boramk leave he forum though

Oooh, ok.

Boramk left the forum? Why? What the hell have you guys been up to while I have been gone? Do I need to get a nanny again?