My interesting science fact of the week.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/crow-necrophilia/565442/
Good bit of nominative determinism
"Crows, like most birds, have no penises"
Well, you learn something every day.
Morbid Corvids.....
In the most dramatic examples, a crow would approach the dead crow while alarm calling, copulate with it, be joined in the sexual frenzy by its presumed mate, and then rip it into absolute shreds,” Swift wrote. “I must have gone through a dozen dead crows over the course of the study, with some specimens only lasting through a single trial
Swift found that the crows would mount dead birds even when their living mates were nearby. In one memorable instance, a pair of crows saw a dead body and then proceeded to mate with each other.
Now my own sex life seems even more vanilla.
Nice, but the mallards have been at it for years
Surely it's ne-crow-philia?
Raven-mad, I tells thee!
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