Yep, penguins do that all the time.

Mission Plug the Third! by PitViperOfDoom on 2009-04-26 23:22:00 UTC Reply

http://rc6664.webs.com/mission3.htm

NSFW, reader beware. I acknowledge the April 1st incident with the EPC, so... ya.

My poor, poor agents. They killed a Happy Tree Friends Replacement Stu, and it came back.

Woohoo! by Laburnum on 2009-04-27 02:01:00 UTC Reply

Anything which defiles the Happy Tree Friends needs to suffer.

(I should point out, though, that rat penises are tiny. It's just the testicles that are ridiculously oversized. Please don't ask me how I know this. Look, if you saw a book entitled "How Animals Have Sex", wouldn't you read it?)

Re: Woohoo! by Gabriel on 2009-04-27 02:51:00 UTC Reply

(I should point out, though, that rat penises are tiny. It's just the testicles that are ridiculously oversized. Please don't ask me how I know this. Look, if you saw a book entitled "How Animals Have Sex", wouldn't you read it?)

I think I know how you know this: you dissected rats in biology class.

Well, yes. But also the book. by Laburnum on 2009-04-27 14:15:00 UTC Reply

It really exists, it's by Gideon Defoe, who also did The Pirates! series.

Re: Woohoo! by PitViperOfDoom on 2009-04-27 02:50:00 UTC Reply

I agree completely.

Ohhh... Well, I once read some stuff out of a book called "The Book of Animal Ignorance", where each chapter described bizarre facts about certain animals. Apparently, two male penguins in a zoo actually got together during mating season raised an egg together. (Where they got the egg, the book didn't say.) I think I mentioned that vaguely somewhere in the mission and forgot to explain it.

Yep, penguins do that all the time. by Laburnum on 2009-04-27 23:12:00 UTC Reply

So do swans and at least one type of geese. They tend to let a female stick around long enough to lay the egg and then keep it for themselves, or steal one from another nest.

And there used to be a Wikipedia entry entitled "Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck". I don't know if it's still there and I don't quite dare go looking. (Apparently the event described only happened in front of a human observer once, which is kind of a relief.)

Because I DO dare. by WarriorJoe on 2009-04-27 23:17:00 UTC Reply

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalsexualbehavior#Necrophilia

It's been folded into a general article, but it's still there.

Roy and Silo! by Gabriel on 2009-04-27 02:56:00 UTC Reply

Yeah, I heard about them.

Heh, let the religious right try to argue that homosexuality is unnatural...