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I hope their life together is long and wonderful
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Maybe that's why they're almost extinct. By 1840, they had almost completely died out as a species.
Or because they were hunted to near extinction by Europeans for soup and shell based accessories..?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles_giant_tortoise
No, it’s gotta be the gay
That, or all the crayons the original commenter has been devouring (username).
Gay tortoises are tastier.
But much more difficult to breed... 🤪
Humpback whales are “least concern” and the first images we have of them fucking is male on male.
There are lots of ways that having homosexual behavior in animals can help a species survive. Gay couples can raise orphans, sex can serve as a form of social bonding or even dominance to maintain social structures… It’s an uncritical high school student’s understanding of evolution and biology to assume that all adaptive behavior directly leads to reproduction.
Humpback, indeed!
I smell an aquatic sequel: Humpback Trench
In stead of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger when he was alive, it'll star an actual humpback whale and the remains of no longer alive Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger will still be amongst a whopping 64 posthumous Oscar nominees, but the only one to be nominated for posthumous accomplishments.
"I wish I knew how to quit you, because you have destroyed my internal organs."
There have been numerous documented occurrences of homosexuality across a wide variety of species. If they were to become extinct, it'd be unlikely to be due to a relatively small percentage of them being gay.
Apart from anything else, does that stop them from breeding?
Not my line of expertise, but I'd guess it's little different from us humans in that there's nothing technical preventing reproduction with a member of the opposite sex - just a matter of desire to.
Maybe the list of animals displaying homosexual behavior on Wikipedia can be a good starting place for research should you genuinely be curious about this.
Weaker/smaller male cuttlefish will pretend to be female cuttlefish, take “dick” (hectocotylus) from stronger male cuttlefish, and then use the distraction to breed with a female.