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Penguins ❤️ (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I thought I was in linuxmemes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The snuggle all day business sounds legit

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months 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 4 months ago

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

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