• tegs_terry@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

      I don’t think anyone but you has even remotely implied there’s some overall gold standard presented by penguin behavior that needs to be compared to humans. Simply the fact that other species have homosexuals, and those pairs can raise a “family” successfully. Compared to your mentioned standard humans don’t do so great sometimes either.

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        4 months ago

        I didn’t imply they were a gold standard. I just remarked that they certainly weren’t, which is very different.