Men are such rutting pigs!
We just can't
keep it in our pants!
BIRD AND MAMMAL MAKE A COUPLE
Researchers have witnessed a wild Antarctic fur seal attempting sex with a king penguin--the first documented case of a pinniped trying to mate with an animal that is not only a different species but also a different class of vertebrates.P. J. Nico de Bruyn and colleagues at the University of Pretoria in South Africa saw the 45-minute attack at a beach on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. "The seal alternated between resting on the penguin and bouts of pelvic thrusting copulatory behavior," the team writes in the May Journal of Ethology. Burney le Boeuf, a behavioral ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says he's not surprised, given the male propensity to father as many offspring as possible: "Sperm are cheap." Le Boeuf says he's reminded of male wild turkeys, which will attempt to mate with a stick if it's placed at an angle that mimics the neck of a receptive female.CREDIT: NICO DE BRUYN
