In case anyone was wondering, this is a thing in the wild, too. Homosexuality is well documented in many birds, penguins included. Same sex penguin couples perform sex acts on each other, build nests together, groom each other, and will show signs of extreme distress and grief when separated or when one of them passes away. They mate for life and because they can’t produce offspring of their own, they will often take in abandoned or orphan chicks, or sometimes even steal eggs of other couples.
Crazy how we focus so heavily on the rare sighting of two males coming together to raise a child when 95 percent of animals don’t do that. Then we have to ask ourselves why are they? Is it love? Penguins have natural parental instincts. They couldn’t care less if they did it alongside another male. But somehow this is an argument for same sex intimacy being a natural part of the living world.
What part? The part where two male penguins decide to raise a child. That is natural. Even though they may be trapped outside of nature in a cramped space where environment can change behavior… I guess that is somewhat natural because they are doing what they know. Now… Us relating and reasoning why and how they are doing it and applying it to our own relationships and ideas of natural love… that’s not natural.
So it’s not indicative of sexual attraction. Also, why would they randomly raise another penguin’s kid? If the chick one of the two male penguin’s offspring? Why would the mother or perhaps both parents just leave and/or randomly give their offspring to someone else? It’s one thing if every adult penguin in the group raises every child penguin in the group but this post implies a family structure.
omg give it a rest, penguins of the same sex actually do sexual acts together but I don’t know what that’s so validating for you when they also partake in mating rituals without the egg or fertilization so it’s so weird if you right now to even try to make it seem like they’re just roommates, deal with it that there are homosexual penguins.
I’m honestly at a loss as to why 45 has been so downvoted… it seems like they saw something that made them curious and want to know information, so they thought, “hey, might as well ask the OP/community if they know more about the penguins’ behavior, sexual and otherwise.” It seems to me like 45 was just trying to understand what was going on and why, which shouldn’t be offensive to anyone with any degree of patience. We all have different experiences and bodies of knowledge, so we have to…
… accept that some people will not know things that we know, and might ask us for help in understanding the things we have knowledge on. So when someone asks a genuine question, either answer them politely or choose not to, but there’s no need to warp what they said or put them down for not being an expert on penguin behavior. To a layperson on animal/penguin behavior(me included), the questions 45 asked are valid!
i'm just gonna leave this here, you can tell #45 was not coming from a place of wanting to have knowledge on it because they could've easily searched up if they had sexual relations, I have a low patience for any bigotry and them trying to debunk it and go back and forth and what they were saying also was a clear sign of them trying to go against it. Basically a place of trying to debunk it rather than learning something new.
Personally, I don’t think you’re homophobic. I’m just pointing out that if you want the nitty gritty on homosexuality in nature, there are plenty of scientific papers on the subject. I’ve read them, they’re good reading. I was (albeit rudely, I apologize) suggested you look elsewhere.
Honestly, I can’t speak to why 45 asked that question here rather than search for the answers on their own online. Perhaps they figured there was a community that might know more about penguins’ sexual and amorous behaviors who could answer their questions quickly without them having to do all that research theirself.
Not exactly. It happens in more social species because their survival depends on strong communities. For that, you need a few members of the community that are childless and have free time to do things like guard areas or find the best feeding grounds or defend against predators. Also, they serve as great backup parents if one couple dies and another needs to take care of the kid. For species that take a lot of work to raise young, this is especially important.
You think they made the penguins be gay? Weird asf ever heard of a foundling before? If not look it up it may help! Male Penguins almost always stay and sit on the egg while their partner goes and provides. Very opposite of our proposed reality yet you still feel the need to fit animals into the same box as humans. At the end of the day the baby penguin has parents and that's all that matters!
Your view on religion has been tainted. It’s about acknowledging sin as sin. Those who are truly “religious” are truly repentful. They See the errors in themselves and all their earthly beliefs/ and possessions and understand they aren’t “enough” (as modern ideology would like you to believe) but need an intervener.
My argument is not that it isn’t in nature that two male penguins come together I literally said “…to raise a child. That is natural EVEN though they may trapped outside of nature” and the second half was stating that environment can change behavior. MY point is that we can’t be relating the instincts and some of the behaviors penguins or any other animal to support our own beliefs on relationships. Dolphins rape, praying mantises eat their partners head, and many others hurt their mate