Showing posts with label penguins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label penguins. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

Depraved sex acts by penguins.

Rape! Homosexuality! Necrophilia!

I just knew there as something wrong with those cute little birds.

Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scott's polar team, are finally being made public.

Details, including "sexual coercion", recorded by George Murray Levick were considered so shocking that they were removed from official accounts.

However, scientists now understand the biological reasons behind the acts that Dr Levick considered "depraved".

The Natural History Museum has published his unedited papers.

Read the rest here