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andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 30 days ago

This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 30 days ago
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  • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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    He must’ve copied it from gay tourists who did it in front of him! Surely it’s just a show of completely non-sexual dominance. They’re just really good friends. /s

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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      They’re enclosure-mates!

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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      Paul Goldstein, the photographer who captured the images in Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve in August, said many other species are known to engage in such behavior and that, for example, he had seen giraffes doing it.

      “It was just a dramatic thing to see,” Goldstein said of the male lions. He was astonished by Mutua’s remarks, declaring it “not normal” and attributing the behavior to demonic possession, or copying what he clearly believes is amoral human behavior.

      “These animals need counselling, because probably they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly,” said Mutua. “I don’t know, they must have copied it somewhere or it is demonic. Because these animals do not watch movies.”

      “The demonic spirits inflicting in humans seems to have now caught up with the animals,” the film classification board director said. “That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals.”

  • squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The Wikipedia article about Jonathan

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    Great now Jonathan will be on the deportion list.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldOP
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      He’s already on an island in the middle of the ocean that’s so remote it wasn’t even occupied when the Europeans took it. St. Helena is where they sent Napoleon to try to keep him away.

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    To save everyone some time

    His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025

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      And “The first known public appearance of the term homosexual in print is found in an 1869 German pamphlet.”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_homosexuality

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        Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

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    Here he is (on the left) ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:

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      Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don’t look like anything that would’ve existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:

      Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile

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        Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo. Fixed. Pretty funny that that you can have a photo decades later than you thought and you can’t tell by the animal in it, but by the technology in the background!

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          Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn’t realise the picture was swapped.

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