Although Kissed may have made me more sympathetic to it, necrophilia is still one of the grossest sexual preferences I can think of. OK – some of us may find death fascinating, researching it and surrounding ourselves with imagery of it, but that doesn’t mean we’d prefer a cold, lifeless body to a warm, moving one…in bed. But necrophilia is not something limited to our inbred human sensibilities. Apparently, many species attempt to copulate with the deceased; it’s been documented in ” Ducks, penguins, sea lions, pigeons, and even ground squirrels” according to this article on National Geographic. More recently, a researcher in Brazil watched a common species of lizard, the black-and-white tegu, engage in necrophilia, and was pretty excited about it. Zoologist Ivan Sazima documented the necrophiliac behaviour of this species when he observed not one, but two male tegus attempt to have sex with an obviously dead female. The first one was scared off after 5 minutes, but the second one tried for an hour to get her going, despite her stench and bloating. In another case, biologist Kamelia Algiers observed a male long-nosed leopard lizard attempting to woo a female lizard who had been hit by a car, but even though its “intestines were sticking out, and there were ants crawling all over it,” the male wasn’t deterred. These necrophiliac instances are pretty much unexplained (as is human necrophilia, I assume) and therefore considered important for scientists who study these animals. Both cases were documented in the journal Herpetology Notes. Why am I telling you about these lizards? I don’t know, maybe it helps to know that the human being isn’t some completely fucked-up mental case of an animal, that other animals do strange and horrible shit to each other too (although I still think we’re weirder). Mostly because it’s fucking bizarre, and a little something to weird up your day. Happy Tuesday!
A male tegu opens its jaws and attempts to mate with a female lizard that’s been dead for two days. // Photograph by Ivan Sazima
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Aury Dalle
March 24, 2015 at 11:46 am
The only thing crossing my mind is that animals don’t have a clear idea of what is good or wrong like humans do. They run by instinct and we (supposedly) don’t. So yeah, we still win the *fucked up-animal contest.
Antonio Nino
March 3, 2015 at 3:03 pm
what is wrong with the world today
Edvin Lxlx
March 4, 2015 at 2:28 am
It’s all because of Ren & Stimpy.
Matt Loudon
March 3, 2015 at 11:48 am
Johannes
Ross Donnelly
March 3, 2015 at 7:41 am
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Court Reese
March 3, 2015 at 6:27 am
Reasons like this are why I love my biology degree, the gay necrophiliac duck story is one of my favorites
Toothpick Johnson
March 3, 2015 at 6:00 am
Looking good Tina. Did you lose weight?
Iván Loprens
March 3, 2015 at 3:08 am
Love me like a reptile
Samuel Carter
March 3, 2015 at 2:29 am
Nicholas Andreas Stavri definately is this you
Nicholas Andreas Stavri
March 3, 2015 at 2:30 am
CC Lucy Rose Deighton
Lucy Rose Deighton
March 3, 2015 at 2:55 am
Don’t copy me into this! I said NEARLY dead.
Heinz Hines
March 3, 2015 at 2:25 am
Disappointed!!! I thought this was gunna be about lizards fuking dead people like the title says
Arnaldo Bretón Castillo
March 3, 2015 at 12:26 am
Eduardo Pérez Bohórquez esto te va a molar
Eduardo Pérez Bohórquez
March 3, 2015 at 1:07 am
Vaya cositas lindas q me pasas surmano
Luke Hams
March 3, 2015 at 12:26 am
George Binns
Luis-rey Velasco
March 3, 2015 at 12:20 am
A certain species of frogs do this shit!
Энтони Галиффо
March 3, 2015 at 12:19 am
well i guess George Carlin was wrong
Bradley Fitter
March 3, 2015 at 12:06 am
Tess Van Deyk