Friday, May 2, 2008

Signs I need a vacation...

I read the headline in COMPLETE shock. I mean, I'd just seen Seal and his lovely little wife on Oprah... and they were so happy, and so normal- well normal if you're a rich Hollywood superstar with the world laid at your feet. But still, Seal didn't come off seeming like someone who would be so so, low.


But there it was, the headline that said it all: "Sexual predator: Seal's sex attack on penguin". I was almost too disgusted to even click the link. I mean, I've read some pretty bad 'human to animal' sex crime cases... but SEAL? OMFG.

Thankfully, I managed to click the link, and that's when it hit me... perhaps I've been covering sex crimes for too damn long.

The Antarctic fur seal was observed by South African scientists attempting to have sex with the king penguin on Marion Island, in the sub-Antarctic region. The incident was recorded in the Journal of Ethology.

The effort lasted forty-five fruitless minutes, according to the BBC.


A seal. Not Seal. Not the Seal, the Seal who's a famous singer guy married to a woman with kids and a life. Not the human superstar Seal. But a seal. A mammal, a wild animal.

Geez. I need a vacation.

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