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Seals Discovered having sex with penguins

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Replicant

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Sexual harassment, perversion via interspecies copulation, rape and murder.....smh. Those Seals need to be locked up.

WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!!
 
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GifGafIsTheBestGaf

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malyce said:
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/seals-are-raping-brehguins-and-scientists-don’t-know-why.267938/
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lmao

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this gif
 
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Messofanego

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I accessed that study, and saw images of the penguin bleeding from its cloaca. holy fuck.

Birth of a rape culture, I think. Like, they're learning this and replicating it (not even the same seal rapist, according to the de Bruyn et al 2014 study) only since 2006 after having been observed for more than 3 and a half decades.

On eating the penguin afterwards. That goes against the hypothesis that it could be predatory relationship turning to sexual arousal.
De Bruyn et al. (2008) hypothesised that the sexual coercion event they witnessed was a result of the seal’s predatory behaviour towards the penguin being redirected into sexual arousal. But in the 2011 observation, the seal actually killed and ate the KP after sexually coercing it. In the light of new evidence, this hypothesis seems less plausible.
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But the new observations suggest that having sex with penguins may be becoming a learned behaviour among seals on the island.

"Seals have capacity for learning - we know this from their foraging behaviour for example," explained de Bruyn.

So male seals may see each other coercing penguins, then attempt it themselves.

That might explain why the number of incidents appears to be increasing. "I genuinely think the behaviour is increasing in frequency."

But "if this is learned behaviour, we really can’t think of what the reward may be for these young males," he adds. "Other than perhaps learning that these birds are an easier target to practice their copulatory skills."

The seals were not yet old or large enough to defend harems of female seals, explained de Bruyn.

"Perhaps it is a release of sexual frustration, given the hormonal surges during seal breeding season. It is very unlikely to be failed mate recognition - i.e. the misidentification of the penguin as a female seal.

"All in all it's difficult to say really," he admits.
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It's not likely these seals are confused at what they're mating with (failed mate recognition). There's no reward so they're just letting out sexual frustrations on anything, even out of their species? Or there's lots of competition with the rise of their population for access to females ("mate deprivation hypothesis") so they're picking easy targets?

Or just because they can without any negative consequence? It could be as smarter animals who go beyond their biological imperatives tend to be more capable of awful intentional behaviours to exercise their free will.
 
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vwnut13

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chicagocubsfan said:
Someone needs to find that video of the dolphin on YouTube doing the beheaded fish corpse. It was worth it for the amazing music alone.
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So now you're telling me that Necrophilia occurs in nature too!?


(Kind of makes the 'but there are animals that exhibit homosexual behavior!' argument seem kind of silly)
 
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EulaCapra

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First video is amusingly funny.

In three of the four recorded incidents the seal let the penguin go. But on one of the more recent occasions, the seal killed and ate the penguin after trying to mate with it.
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...Welp, not anymore.
 
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y2dvd

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It can actually be frustrating to watch nature videos. The penguins are just standing around watching. You see the same thing with buffaloes when one of their kind is being suffocated by a lion. Sometimes they just watch when I'm thinking they are so much bigger and there's so many more. Yall can just take out the lions and help out so easily! (there are videos of this actually happening).

I'm guessing the prey instinct is too strong and the fear of becoming a prey themselves prevents them from helping out. That, and their intelligence is too low to do anything about it.
 
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mantidor

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y2dvd said:
It can actually be frustrating to watch nature videos. The penguins are just standing around watching. You see the same thing with buffaloes when one of their kind is being suffocated by a lion. Sometimes they just watch when I'm thinking they are so much bigger and there's so many more. Yall can just take out the lions and help out so easily! (there are videos of this actually happening).

I'm guessing the prey instinct is too strong and the fear of becoming a prey themselves prevents them from helping out. That, and their intelligence is too low to do anything about it.
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I think the main reason is they just don't care once a predator gets its prey, because they can rest easy for now.

People overestimate animals' ability to have empathy.
 
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DedValve

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I forgot that dolphins masturbate.

Today I learn seals rape and twerk it. Sea mammals are just as scary as land mammals.
 
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