Animals are so gay!
Thursday, July 17th, 2008 - 2:22pm
I found this the other day and thought it interesting.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bisexual-species
P.S. Yes I know it talks about penguins, and yes my avatar is a penguin, no jokes need to be made. 
I wonder if animals every dress up in human costumes for secretive Unfuzzie Conventions...
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Clearly these animals belong in South Carolina.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos
Doesn't mean those animals aren't just CHOOSING to be gay.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
Spore
...because they don't have Jesus.
This is the internet! In our natural environment, atheists run in packs and have dictionaries! --- JoeBeDurndurn
Its because all of the gay penguins in the media. Its a fad.
Holy crap! All this time I've been seeing a crazy, grey bat.
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But Hanta... are microbes gay? I know you have voyeuristic tendencies to watch them reproduce under a microscope. This is all after setting the stage for little microbe orgies in those petri dishes, or as the microbiologists call them 'love dishes'...
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Hmm. Is global warming and the disappearing antarctic ice shelf God's punishment to gay penguins?
This is the internet! In our natural environment, atheists run in packs and have dictionaries! --- JoeBeDurndurn
Or.. maybe the Penguin Rapture has already occured, leading to those same dwindling numbers. The non-believers are left to fend off their final days in the human realm.
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And the gay penguins are the "left behind"?
This is the internet! In our natural environment, atheists run in packs and have dictionaries! --- JoeBeDurndurn
No, in my vision of Penguin heaven, both the hetero and homo-sexual penguins would be welcome, as long as they led good lives. The only ones left behind are those that didnt have faith in PenguinJesus. Well, those and the ones that were too busy surfing at the time to enter the Sardine Gates of PenguinHeaven.
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But I don't recall having seen or heard of the arrival of the Four Leopard Seals of the Apocalypse. Surely this has not yet happened.
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Many of the penguins have taken the mark of the polar bear, they have become forsaken to hell.
Beware the March of the Penguin Horde!
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The poachers ended their reign of terror prematurely.
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Lunarel - Druid
Funkenpants wrote:
That's what happened to the honeybees, you know.
NOTE: This is not a doodle bug.
Spore
So, when they stung me as a kid, they were trying to convert me?
Was my friend's anaphylactic shock actually just being filled with the joy of Buzzing Jesus?
How'd I miss it all these years?
I accrue pens like Hefner accrues bimbos. -- duckideva
I agree on the balls. Not a fan of the balls. -- wordsmythe asserting himself in OOC Theater
I bet your friend rejected His love with the help of epinephrin. Infidel.
This is the internet! In our natural environment, atheists run in packs and have dictionaries! --- JoeBeDurndurn
Hey, bacterial sex is HOT!, You get to watch conjegation pili extend, penetrate the cell wall and ... I'm spent! (On a dorky side note, I spent an hour today watching archaea swim around; that was sexy too)
Many animals also eat their own feces, cannibalize their own offspring, and kill each other with little or no remorse...hmm that last one may not be so much of a contrast.
Either way, animals doing something is not the greatest motivation for humans doing it.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him, than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word "darkness" on the wall of his cell.
-CS Lewis
It is however sufficient to rebut claims that "it's not natural" or the like.
Clearly, there's some evolutionary advantage in having part of the population remove itself from breeding (and thus have more time for things that benefit the family, tribe or community, perhaps.)
"Sometimes I go around saying, 'Kommisar Paulson has seized the commanding heights of the economy!'" - Paul Krugman, asked if recent changes to banking are socialistic.
I wonder whether they electrocute pickles, then.
INT is my dump stat.
Just something exists doesn't necessarily mean that it's a positive adaptation or even purposeful. Your body is full of points of failure and flaws inherited from your ancestors. Flaws that were overcome or outweighed by the positive traits that contributed to their reproductive fitness. Evolution isn't producing perfect creatures, only adequate ones (though the competitiveness of the environment determines where the bar is for adequacy).
Given modern society, I'd say it makes world class Limbo dancers tremble in fear.
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.
Idiocracy remains the scariest and most dystopian vision of the future we've produced to date.
Eating babies is perfectly natural, I keep telling them.
Fedaykin98 wrote:
wordsmythe wrote:
Not to mention the most probable.
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If we actually got that stupid, we'd revert to barbarism; we're already failing to maintain our civilization as it is. Most of our major systems, from education to roads to power infrastructure to water supplies, are anywhere from barely adequate to outright failing.
We're not smart enough to keep things running today; there's no way Idiocracy could work as advertised.
(at the moment, we lack the intelligence to show foresight; how bad is it going to be in another two decades? )
SEX!! Now I have your attention, more interesting animal stuff.
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/museums-culture/42121/kung-poo-panda