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An Antarctic fur seal has been observed trying to have sex with a king penguin.
[...]Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear.
[...]Equally, it might be been an aggressive, predatory act; or even a playful one that turned sexual.
[...]Sexual coercion among animals is extremely common: males of many species often harass, coerce or force females of their own kind to mate, while animals are also known occasionally to harass sexually a member of a closely related species.
[...]But this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian.
BBC News Science/Nature
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