Seals have been caught having sex with penguins,
leaving scientists puzzled.
The odd behaviour, seen on a remote island, was captured
on camera and published in the Polar Biology journal, according to the BBC and
other media.
It’s not the first time amorous seals have been spotted
forcing themselves on the little birds — a similar incident was reported in
2006.
But this time it has happened more often — and has been
caught on film. Warning: The video below may upset some people.
“Honestly I did not expect that follow up sightings of a
similar nature to that 2006 one would ever be made again, and certainly not on
multiple occasions,’’ Nico de Bruyn, of the Mammal Research Institute at the
University of Pretoria, South Africa, said. .
Fur seals often catch and eat penguins on the island, but
in three out of the four sexual incidents the penguin was allowed to go after
its ‘encounter’.
The fourth penguin was eaten.
Scientists are now trying to work out why the seals are
behaving as they are, and have peculated that the mammals may have learned the
habit from one another.
You can see the bizarre behaviour here:
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