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Penguins ❤️ (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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] 2 points 1 month ago

The snuggle all day business sounds legit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What you call them iis arbitrary. Genetics is a disgustingly unstandardized field when it comes to naming things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It isn't arbitrary when you're comparing it to another specific chromosome.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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