(Only semi-OT because the genesis of the rock and roll band is an
incontestably related phenomenon. Excerpted from [www.rawstory.com] )

It was the sight of a young male Adelie penguin attempting to have sex with a
dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with
the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been
recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman,
was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion
was another.

Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12
observing the colony of Adelies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to
this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he
witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females,
including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually
coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.

Levick blamed this “astonishing depravity” on “hooligan males” and wrote
down his observations in Greek so that only an educated gentleman would
understand the horrors he had witnessed. Back in Britain he produced a paper
(in English), titled Natural History of the Adelie Penguin. However, the
section about the animal’s sexual proclivities was deemed to be so shocking it
was removed to preserve decency.

Levick’s lost masterpiece certainly has its eye-watering moments with its
descriptions of male Adelies who gather in “little hooligan bands of half a
dozen or more and hang about the outskirts of the knolls, whose inhabitants
they annoy by their constant acts of depravity”. Injured females are mounted
by members of these “gangs”, others have their chicks “misused before the very
eyes of its parents”.







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I've got a roomful of cockatiels and I've seen them get up to just about any and every kind of depraved sexual activity you can possibly imagine. No inhibitions whatsoever.






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