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Friday, April 8, 2011

Animals Prostitution and Penguins

Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:23 AM

This might be old news to you, but it is new news to me:

Penguins are turning to prostitution. But instead of doing it for money, Antarctic dolly-birds are turning tricks to get rocks off their menfolk.

Stones are essential for penguins to build their nests. A shortage has led to the unorthodox tactics.

"Stones are the valuable currency in penguin terms," said Dr Fiona Hunter, a researcher in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University.

All of the female penguins Dr Hunter observed trading sex for stones had partners. Penguins stick to the same mate, she said, but none of the males twigged what was happening. "There was no suspicion on the part of the males. Females quite often go off on their own to collect stones, so as far as the males are concerned there is no reason to suspect." She added: "It tends to be females targeting single males, otherwise the partner female would beat the intruder up."

Remember The March of the Penguins? Remember how conservatives loved that dumb doc because it showed the greatness of monogamy? Well, you know exactly what I'm thinking.

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Don't Marry Your Stone Carrying Whore.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe

on April 8, 2011 at 8:36 AM

Ah, but see, they will say penguins have no religion. There is no morality without religion. You really can't win with these people. Better not to speak of them at all.

Posted by The Wretched Harmony on April 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM

Encounters At The End Of The World touched on this.

It was right before this particular great part of the movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kdDeGXU…

It all starts here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxaoVpuE…

Posted by Annono on April 8, 2011 at 8:45 AM

Well,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7kdDeGXU…

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxaoVpuE…

If that doesn't work, just rent the movie.

Posted by Annono on April 8, 2011 at 8:49 AM

Any way to blame this on capitalism?

Posted by cliche on April 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM

http://www.eris.net/~johan/images/opus.g…

Posted by Heather on April 8, 2011 at 9:30 AM

There is a word for males who encourage their mates to have sex with lonely single men in return for things of value. It's called 'pimping'.

Posted by Ken Mehlman on April 8, 2011 at 9:56 AM

Prostitution is natural in humans, too. It's absolutely ridiculous that two adults cannot make whatever sexual contract they choose (in the "Land of the Free")

Posted by Vince on April 8, 2011 at 10:05 AM