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@andros_rex@lemmy.world to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 2 months 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 • 2 months ago
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    Tortoises use sight and have a good sense of sight to be fair but they also use scent from the cloaca to gather information about things like sex of a partner

    he knows what he’s doing

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      He can’t smell, either, but he’s been with that tortoise for over thirty years and snubs all the females around.

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        Which is impressive cause tortoises are famously horny and will fuck anything

        nsfw?

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          The sound if you are curious or or even better.

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        They also use vibrations to sense partners but I don’t know if they can tell gender from that

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          Not gender, only sexiness

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            Frederick got the moves!

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      also like, the other tortoise is presumably not blind and anosmic, so it knows what’s going on and isn’t objecting.

      or what do i know, maybe male tortoises become remarkably feminine with age?

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