Fucking Seal

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We here at Um would like to bet that maybe you thought that we were about to tear into Heidi Klum’s husband. Or maybe you were under the impression that we were going to make light of a certain much besieged practice popular in the northern portions of this hemisphere.

Well yr wrong. Like, HA!

Instead, we’re gonna talk to you about this guy. For those of you not inclined to click (and who, thus, missed out on some AMAZING hilarity about two links back), that is an Antarctic Fur Seal who’s become quite attached to a King Penguin. Don’t believe me? Peep the BBC story here. For you non-surfers, here are the highlights:

“The bizarre event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins.

Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear. But the scientists who photographed the event speculate that it was the behaviour of a frustrated, sexually inexperienced young male seal.”

Oh boy. And it gets better:

“‘At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin,’ says Nico de Bruyn, of the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.”

Yikes! Stop Seal-on-Penguin violence?

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Tags: Penguins, Seals, weird animal sex