This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”

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• Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To save everyone some time

  His age is estimated to be 192 as of 2025

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  • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

    …m.wikipedia.org/…/Terminology_of_homosexuality

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    • tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which is 36 years after this guy hatched

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That one must have enraged Stephen Fry 😄

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• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.”

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What an idiot.

      Animals in the wild obviously watch movies.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      film classification board director

      Oh well then say no more. That’s certainly a higher scientific certification than anyone else who could have anything to say on the matter

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals.”

      Good luck, that guy. There are claims some 90% of giraffe sex is male on male.

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  • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re enclosure-mates!

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  • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s blind so he recognized gay sex just from hearing it and decided to try it out.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And then when they’ve got nothing left, they ult:

    Well, God made us in his image and that’s what separates us from the animals!

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      reasonable, except i’m not made in the image of god, i was subcontracted out to zeus and we all know what he was like.

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here he is ca. 1886 at around 50 years old:

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  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oops, you’re absolutely right, I grabbed the wrong photo, Fixed.

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  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that a joke I’m too dumb to get?

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, I just think it’s cool to see an animal in such an old photo that’s still alive today.

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• drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay, I am an ally and all. But when you are endangered ya just got to take one for the team

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Close your eyes and think of the species

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Meh… As someone with no interest in having children and could not care less about what that might mean for my “bloodline,” I get it lol

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    • CaptnNMorgan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re bloodline doesn’t matter if you aren’t an endangered species. Lmao

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• Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great now Jonathan will be on the deportion list.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • ilovededyoupiggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So the tariffs list, then?

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  • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Deportation**

    Unless he’s on the list to be aborted then deported, in which case you got it.

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    • Lucky_777@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks lol, fixed it

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• squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Wikipedia article about Jonathan

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  they are just roommates

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• 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jonathan: “That dick better be hard and ready when I get there”

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• TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dumb question: can his cataracts be fixed (a routine surgery on humans) so he can see his mate is a guy? As a bonus, he could see food morsels without the need of olfaction.

  I also wonder if the loss of olfaction and sight mean he couldn’t recognize the sex of a partner even if it was right in front of him.

  I understand he might really be a gay tortoise, but he could also be gay by necessity.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He shares his space with a number of female tortoises.

    He gay.

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  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tortoises use sight and have a good sense of sight to be fair but the 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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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not covered by my previous comment:

    Apparently doctors investigated cataract surgery several years ago, but deemed it too risky.

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    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s sad, because it’s not like he could go blind from the surgery. He’s already blind. Most persons would risk the surgery if there was a chance to see again, I guess he would too if he could choose.

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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Glad no one decided to make tortoise chowder out of him in those 192 years.

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• azi@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Relevant SNL

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