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[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

If I hug my male friend, have I become the gay?

[-] tegs_terry@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure they get up to all sorts of rape and paedophilia and incest too. This might be a nice fact, but penguins are dirty bitches and certainly no behavioural gold standard.

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[-] mihor@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago

Akshualy those are lesbians, because birds have XX for male and XY for female. 😅

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Don't birds have W and Z or something instead of X and Y?

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

What you call them iis arbitrary. Genetics is a disgustingly unstandardized field when it comes to naming things.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 0 points 5 months ago

It isn't arbitrary when you're comparing it to another specific chromosome.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com -2 points 5 months ago

Are we sure that penguins can actually tell each other apart by gender and it's not just pairing up with whoever's most convenient and some of them get lucky?

[-] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes.

We humans are very well adapted to tell humans apart, penguins are very well adapted to tell penguins apart. They have gender specific mating calls for example.

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