Green | May 02, 2008 | 34 comments

Seal raped penguin

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The BBC reports the first ever interspecies sexual attack. A young male Antarctic fur seal pinned down a king penguin and attempted to mate with it for 45 minutes. The penguin resisted and tried to escape, but the seal overpowered the penguin in size and determination.

Scientists are unsure what compelled the young seal to attempt to mate with the penguin. They speculate the young seal was not allowed to mate with females of his own species because of his age, so he acted out aggressively. Sometimes fur seals eat king penguins, so it is also possible that his predatory instinct became sexualized.

When the seal was finished with the penguin, he largely ignored it. The penguin was physically unharmed by the incident. We can only imagine the emotional scars.
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