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Penguins have gay 'flings' because they are lonely..

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Penguins do not form long-term homosexual relationships despite same-sex flirting, a new study has found.
Scientists who studied a colony of King Penguins discovered that even though more than 25 per cent of the males displayed in same-sex pairs only two birds bonded permanently.
Even those two penguins were later seen caring for eggs as part of a heterosexual pair.
Experts believe that the penguins might indulge in some same-sex flirting because they are 'lonely' due to a lack of female penguins in the colony.


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King Penguins engaging in a display. New research suggests that male penguins mate with same-sex partners out of a lack of female alternatives

Gay ‘flirting’ could also be due to high levels of testosterone within the colony among males.

The team from the Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecolog in Montpellier, France studied king penguins on the Antarctic island of Kerguelen to better understand their mating behaviour.
During the mating season king penguins displayed with potential partners by closing their eyes, stretching their heads skyward and then looking at each other.
In their study the researchers found that 28.3 pc of the birds studied displayed to penguins of the same sex.
One theory behind same-sex pairing was that penguins paired up with other males because they could not tell the difference between the sexes and so paired at random.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...e-life-heterosexual-couple.html#ixzz130pnOhvz​
 
Kadarin said:
Do they just pair up in a relationship, or do they actually somehow fuck?
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Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds, therefore do not have penises with which to fuck... although they may have some hot scissoring action going on.

:awe:
 
meltdown75 said:
Sidney Crosby does not approve of this thread
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ROFLMAO!

From NHL rule 54.2, paragraph 3:

A player is not permitted to hold an opponent’s stick. A minor penalty shall be assessed to a player who holds an opponent’s stick (assessed and announced as “holding the stick”).
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Poor Sidney will just have to be lonely, I guess. :biggrin:
 
And you posted this why?

Your normally useful and informative posts are not indicative within this. I am reconsidering your usefulness to the collective.
 
Are "gay" animals actually gay with respect to sexual intercourse? Meaning, do they engage in penetration or some other act with same-sex members? The reason I ask is because we often anthropomorphize animals and describe them with human traits. I think for the most part, the animal kingdom is regulated by opposite sex attractions for groups that reproduce by sexual reproduction.

Given the rapid generation of offspring for other creatures, it would seem that homosexual traits (if they actually are purely genetic) would be wiped out of the population since it is unfavorable. It seems as if homosexuality can only "work" in higher organism with awareness of sexuality and with longer relative life spans.
 
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