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Strange: Seals want to mate with penguins.
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Struggle: It took the seal 45 minutes to mate with the emperor penguin, but it was probably disappointing.
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Family reunion? The king penguin in the picture is bigger than the fur seal, and certainly not as easy to bully as the penguin in the article.
Scientists recently witnessed a natural wonder on Marion Island near the South Pole-a male Antarctic fur seal tried to rape an emperor penguin, but the seal failed in the end, and the "scandal" was captured by scientists.
Attempted invasion for 45 minutes
According to Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po reported on the 4th, the "crime scene" was a beach on Marion Island. The "suspect" was burly and weighed about 100 kilograms, pressing the victim penguin who weighed only 15 kilograms. The infringed penguin kept flapping its wings and tried to get up and escape, but could not escape. The seal pressed the penguin for a while, twitched his lower body back and forth for a while, trying to violence each other, but it took 45 minutes to be helpless, so he had to "borrow water" and didn’t look back at the penguin.
Scientists don’t know why seals raped penguins, and they don’t know the sex of the victims, but I believe this is the first time that a mammal has attempted to mate with a different species such as vertebrates.
The South African scientist who filmed this wonder estimated that the violent seal might be a young male seal with no sexual experience. Because it was too young and tender, it was not favored by the female seal, but the sexual desire suddenly surged, so he was hungry and chose a penguin.
Motivation: lack of sexual experience?
However, because the mating season of local animals is almost over, scientists speculate that seals may want to hunt penguins at first, but their appetite for penguins has turned into sexual impulses. Debruin, a South African mammal expert, said: "At first glance, we thought that seals would kill penguins." Because Marion Island is the only place in the world where Antarctic fur seals are known to hunt emperor penguins on land, the idea that seals originally tried to hunt penguins was established.
Scientists also said that it is also possible that seals originally wanted to play with penguins, but during the play, they became lustful.
Editor: xu wen hua