Here’s Some Uncensored Seal-On-Penguin Action [Video]

I don't know why I felt compelled to share this with you, but here it is.

Scientists recently returned from studying king penguins and say that they learned quite a bit. And, like all good travelers, they brought back a souvenir. Unfortunately, that souvenir is this video of a seal forcing himself on a penguin. (Poor penguin.)

I guess it's no secret to people in the know that penguins are not picky when it comes to mates (sounds like a few dudes I knew in college). According to research, penguins are actually total nymphomaniacs, mounting pretty much anything that breathes. What's weird, though, is that seals are now being observed having sex with penguins (which they normally eat) and then sometimes letting the penguin go. This is all kind of horrifying. I think I saw it on an episode of "Criminal Minds".

According to IFL Science:

All four acts observed so far seemed to follow a similar pattern where the seal chases, captures and then mounts the penguin. The seal then attempted to copulate with the penguin several times, with each effort lasting around five minutes. Of course, all of this harassment was tiring, so the seal would take a break in between attempts.

Like most birds, penguins don't have external genitalia and instead possess an opening called a cloaca. They mate by pressing these organs together in what is known as a 'cloacal kiss,' in which the sperm is transferred to the female. Traumatically for the penguins, some of the seals were thought to have successfully penetrated the victims' cloacas during the act as blood was observed around the area afterwards. Although seals often catch and consume penguins, in all but one of the acts the seal let the penguin go afterward. After the most recently documented incident, however, the seal killed and ate the penguin."

It turns out that fur seals have been known to try to have sex with penguins in the past, and research dating as far back as 2006 confirms that this isn't all that uncommon. Now, scientists are just taping the entire thing and putting it on the internet. For science.