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Scientists confirm sighting of two same-sex marine giants copulating in amorous encounter off Hawaii coast

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 103 points 2 years ago

HoMoSeXuAlItY doEsNt eXiSt iN NaAaATtuUuUurRrRrEEeEeeeeee

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's Joe, he's making the fucking whales gay, with the frogs.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago

Joe Rogan or Joe Arpaio? 😇

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Joe Stevens

He's my neighbor and acts like he's got a 9-5, but I know he spends his off time in the basement with the light on thinking up new ways to enforce the global liberal agenda. Probably has posters of gay whales hung up in his office.

[-] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 points 2 years ago

Heckssake the atrazine already contaminated the plankton en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine…

What if they said "No homo" before having sex?

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It must be the windmills turning them gay.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It’s the WECs (wave energy converters)

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 76 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So. They’re…Brokeback Whales…?

[-] tal@lemmy.today 54 points 2 years ago

During the intimate encounter photographed in Hawaii, one of the whales was seen to be holding the other in place with its pectoral fins while penetrating it. The whale underneath appeared to be ailing, being noticeably emaciated and covered in whale lice, white-colored parasites sometimes found on cetaceans.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-12/whale-lice-captured-on-hervey-bay-humpback/101518622

University of Sunshine Coast ecologist Alexis Levengood says the only way a whale becomes infested with lice is through body contact with another whale.

"They usually get them through mating or from aggression and if they're fighting.

Might regret that.

[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

That asshole gave me crabs!

[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago

They must like fish sticks.

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 49 points 2 years ago

Oh. The republicans will soon present a bill for the conversion therapy of whales....

[-] sleepyTonia@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago

Or now they'll admit climate change is a thing. While claiming it's making whales gay.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

If that's what it takes to convince them...

[-] flipht@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

They do that with humans because it's harder to just get away with killing us.

For whales? They'll just try to revive the whaling industry.

[-] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

They're turning the frickin whales gay now

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago

Are these whales unaware that homosexuality is unnatural? /s

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

Stop forcing your lifestyle on me! /s

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

That's why they're called humpbacks. They like to hump and they'll come back for more.

[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

More like brokebacks

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Gay whales. Gayles? Ghayles? Ghales?

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Humpback Mountain?

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago

There's gales forecast this weekend. I wasn't worried before.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol, amazing.

[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

And inspiration to gay humpers everywhere.

[-] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

My humps, my humps, my humps, my humps, my humps…

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Save you a click: it was butt sex and the bottom is sickly.

[-] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Why would they assume the whales were having sex for the first time?

[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

First time the vouyer got it on film.

[-] flango@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 2 years ago

Best part:

Humpback whales are hefty lovers, measuring up to 16 meters (or 52ft) in length and weighing as much as 36 tons, which is the weight of several buses.

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