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Penguins ❤️ (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If I hug my male friend, have I become the gay?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure they get up to all sorts of rape and paedophilia and incest too. This might be a nice fact, but penguins are dirty bitches and certainly no behavioural gold standard.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Akshualy those are lesbians, because birds have XX for male and XY for female. 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Don't birds have W and Z or something instead of X and Y?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Are we sure that penguins can actually tell each other apart by gender and it's not just pairing up with whoever's most convenient and some of them get lucky?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yes.

We humans are very well adapted to tell humans apart, penguins are very well adapted to tell penguins apart. They have gender specific mating calls for example.

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