AND THEY WERE ROOMMATES!
Sharing the same shell?
Who knows what they were up to when nobody was watching… 😅
Oh my god, they were roommates.
I keep babbling about turtles being shell-friends. But apparently some turtles are more than just friends!
When I was a teen I asked my religious homophobic grandma if animals dont have rational thought but can still be gay, how did they “choose” to be gay? Her response? Gay penguins dont have souls so it doesnt count.
To which I’d have been tempted to reply: “Then how is it that they care for one another if they are without souls? Maybe being so callously judgemental of that which you don’t understand makes you the soulless one who doesn’t count.”
Just shows you that people like that just want a neat and tidy (thought terminating) answer, rather than to know the actual truth.
Turtles are the horniest animals on the planet.
If you don’t have enough girls per male, they will not be able to eat or drink because they are constantly molested by the fuckmachine males.
If you want to live with turtles, don’t mix genders, or get a whole lot of turtles…
Considering their reputation for lack of speed, the sex must be extremely satisfying so of course they’re always wanting more! 🤪
Fun fact, the velociraptor calls from Jurassic Park were based on sounds of turtles mating
The little buggers are not as slow as people think.
These are tortoises, not turtles.
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-a-turtle-and-a-tortoise
What is a tortoise anyway? Is it just a fancy way to say “turtle”? Well, actually, there’s a meaningful difference between tortoises and other turtles. All tortoises are in fact turtles—that is, they belong to the order Testudines or Chelonia, reptiles having bodies encased in a bony shell—but not all turtles are tortoises. If tortoises are turtles, why not just call all turtlelike creatures “turtle”? Because if the animal you’re referring to is a tortoise, some wise guy is going to correct you every time.
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It’s cute and all but… I really hate that arguement. If it wasn’t natural, it wouldn’t make it any less moral. We don’t need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn’t born this way? So what if it’s not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?.. y’know?
To be fair, when arguing with anyone about things not being natural, point out the car they drive, the processed food they cook, the job they work: all very unnatural things that people “choose” to do.
Glasses are not natural, pacemakers are not natural, cars are not natural.
Anyone who uses “not natural” as an argument while not living in a brush hut and cooking over a woodfire is just a hypocrite
We’re the only species that can make our own fires. So unless you stumble upon a fire that has started because of a lightning strike or something, cooking over a fire is pretty unnatural. Then again we are part of nature, so anything we do is natural 🤷♂️
I’ve been saying this for years. It doesn’t matter if you choose to be gay or not. It doesn’t matter how many biological sexes there are. People should do what ever the fuck they want with their own bodies and personalities.
You know what else isn’t natural? Clothes, houses, cars, glasses, phones…
It’s just a dumb argument to begin with, and it’s not even correct. Par for the course for conservatives.
Of course it is a dumb argument, but it is to refute the even dumber argument that somehow homosexuality isn’t natural.
Everything comes from nature so nothing is unnatural.
Well that’s not true. Hatsune miku is not natural in the slightest.
Is an anthill not natural despite having been made by natural beings?
Is Hatsune Miku not natural despite having been made by natural beings?
Hatsune Miku is the anthill of humanity. The peak of our nature.
Hatsune Miku is capable of possessing the Decepticon Soundwave so she is very much not natural.
Also I would personally consider things created by creatures in the animal kingdom to be unnatural by default. With a further breakdown between naturalistic vs manufactured, with naturalistic being for example an anthill while manufactured would be for example a biface.
Natural biological processes such as breathing, pissing, and shitting are natural though.
Well that would just diminish the value of having both words.
So?
The words exist across languages because we use them to mean something. If they had neither denotative nor connotative use, your comment itself would not mean anything. That you made the comment seems to me to imply that you know there is a difference.
Yes, we use them to mean something that is wrong.
We have the concept of werewolves, doesn’t mean they exist.
This is such a silly line of thinking. To call being gay unnatural is clearly a misuse of the word, but the idea that everything that exists at all is natural is nonsense. For example, hot pink is an unnatural human hair color. Even if you color your hair hot pink, and therefore it exists; that doesn’t make it natural. So in the absence of another word used to describe something that wouldn’t otherwise exist in nature without human intervention, … “unnatural” is perfectly suited to this task.
The silly line of thinking is that because a human does something, it makes it unnatural.
I understand that it is meant that way. I’m just criticizing it.
People could be born with hot pink hair and at that point it would be natural?
Is plastic unnatural because it is made by humans? If there was a bacteria who produces plastic would that make plastic natural?
It’s the underlying misunderstanding that people think humanity is something special.
Let’s be real. People say unnatural and mean wrong or undesirable. And I am arguing against that.
With that last part I agree. And I’d bet we probably generally agree, but as a matter of perspective our positions look different. I’m not trying to be obtuse here.
Homosexual behaviour has been exhibited by every known species. Homophobia has only been documented in one .
Who’s fuckin unnatural now?
“Being gay is gay” is the tautology this whole thing will eventually evolve to as all their arguments get refuted one by one.
I wouldn’t bet on it. If they cared about their arguments getting refuted via logic and/or facts, then they’d already have dropped their bullshit.
No, they’re emotionally still children taught by bullies how to “win” by refusing to back down no matter what, and that “might makes right” so they all back each other up. It unfortunately all too often works for them by simply wearing out their opponents - who can’t fathom not giving AF about the facts, and/or just don’t know how to defeat such obstinance.
This is the sort of argument that might stick though “oh yea well world’s oldest tortoise is a 150 gay monogomous male tortoise named Jonathan”. The problem starts when people begin their discussions like “well scientific studies show that…”. You should treat them like they have the attention span of a toddler.
Where exactly is the line between “natural” and “unnatural” and why should Humans abide by what is Natural anyway?
Those who complain such nonsense are almost always those using religion in an attempt to control and/or manipulate others because “God” is in theory “perfect” and therefore unquestionable. They conveniently forget “God” not only isn’t the one making the complaint, but is also the one who supposedly created what they’re complaining about to begin with.
They always have an answer though. Always.
I don’t understand how people can be so arrogant. Religious people come in two flavors though; the leaders who tell everyone what god wants (lol), and the people who follow those leaders but aren’t arrogant enough to think that their feelies must be the will of god.
“‘at queer made me uncomfortable, and my discomfort is god talking to me.”
“Amen brother dipshit!”
Nah, 90% of all christian people are supremely arrogant.
They believe they are special, and better than every one else by divine mandate.
TBF, that description pretty much applies to virtually all religious wingnuts, regardless of their specific “faith.” Arrogant fanaticism is hardly unique to Christians.
Old man yaoi.
I was in a band by that name. We only played instrumental national anthems.
In hindsight, both factors might have limited our marketability a bit…
Yeah but to him it seemed like about a year and a half.
Those aren’t the same turtles in the two pictures. The one on the left looks like a Galapagos and the two on the right are Sulcata…
We have a Sulcata and he humps his water bowl at least once a week.
Im sure some animals have gay tendencies, but are these two turtles having sex or do they just hang out together? Are they given a choice to hang out with femmes, or do they keep them, males and females, separate so they don’t breed?
Im all for guy rights and all, but this kinda stuff is why others don’t take you serious.
Aww such a cute couple 🥰💖
Maybe that’s why they’re almost extinct. By 1840, they had almost completely died out as a species.
Or because they were hunted to near extinction by Europeans for soup and shell based accessories…?
No, it’s gotta be the gay
That, or all the crayons the original commenter has been devouring (username).
Gay tortoises are tastier.
But much more difficult to breed… 🤪
Humpback whales are “least concern” and the first images we have of them fucking is male on male.
There are lots of ways that having homosexual behavior in animals can help a species survive. Gay couples can raise orphans, sex can serve as a form of social bonding or even dominance to maintain social structures… It’s an uncritical high school student’s understanding of evolution and biology to assume that all adaptive behavior directly leads to reproduction.
Humpback, indeed!
I smell an aquatic sequel: Humpback Trench
In stead of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger when he was alive, it’ll star an actual humpback whale and the remains of no longer alive Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger will still be amongst a whopping 64 posthumous Oscar nominees, but the only one to be nominated for posthumous accomplishments.
“I wish I knew how to quit you, because you have destroyed my internal organs.”
There have been numerous documented occurrences of homosexuality across a wide variety of species. If they were to become extinct, it’d be unlikely to be due to a relatively small percentage of them being gay.
