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Mary's Monday Metazoan: More paternal role models
Category: Organisms
Posted on: June 22, 2009 7:34 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Benjamin Geiger | June 22, 2009 7:41 AM
[Insert obvious "babysitting" joke here]
Posted by: James F | June 22, 2009 7:52 AM
Hope you had a great Father's Day, PZ - likewise to all the Pharyngula Phathers.
Posted by: Kitty | June 22, 2009 8:01 AM
Personally I prefer ospreys.
Posted by: Michelle R
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June 22, 2009 8:18 AM
I remember seeing a documentary about what kind of hardship these folks went through to make babies.
That guy there... Give him a frickin' medal!
Posted by: Tom | June 22, 2009 8:26 AM
Bonobos...
Posted by: Christophe Thill | June 22, 2009 8:36 AM
A documentary? It had to be "March of the penguins"? The one that was stripped of its original dialogues between actors (a man, a woman and a little boy) voicing the penguins' feelings, to replace it with a voiceover by Morgan Freeman? And that was also stripped of its wonderful original music, by the young musical genius Emilie Simon, on the pretext that she sings with a poor English accent? Apparently that's what it takes to turn a slightly arty "foreign film" into a US blockbuster. Talk about the respect of artistic intent...
Posted by: Tom | June 22, 2009 8:37 AM
Bonobos...
Posted by: SciencePundit
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June 22, 2009 8:45 AM
Dem penguins ain't got nuttin' on seahorseys!
Posted by: ppb
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June 22, 2009 8:52 AM
Those penguin dads are snappy dressers.
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter | June 22, 2009 9:08 AM
Ah,yes. A bird... that doesn't fly...living in the polar regions...where it lays eggs...on ice...that it has to keep warm... using its feet and a pouch of skin on its stomach...and it can't eat for 4 months.
Must be Intelligently Designed.
Exactly how I would have done it.
Posted by: Larry | June 22, 2009 9:10 AM
I come here for my morning dose of creationist bashing and what do I find?
Cute Overload!
Posted by: mikecbraun | June 22, 2009 9:20 AM
As a Detroit Red Wings fan, I must thoroughly protest the inclusion of this vulgar picture on my favorite blog. What if my child sees this filth? Please, Sir, try to remain impartial. We need some red to balance it out now!
Posted by: llewelly | June 22, 2009 9:27 AM
It's yet another evil atheist plot to deprive you of a filial connection with your child.Posted by: recovering catholic | June 22, 2009 10:10 AM
If you clicked on the photo and took a look at some of the other animal dads, you might have read about the cockroach fathers who provide nutrition for their babies and clean up after them. This is fascinating, as the only other insects I'm aware of that provide care for their young are earwigs.
As I seem to recall from my insect taxonomy course, earwigs and cockroaches are pretty closely related. And they're both "primitive", evolutionarily speaking. Wouldn't it be interesting if parental care has been a trait lost during insect evolution?
Posted by: s1mplex
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June 22, 2009 11:06 AM
Awwww, that's almost as cute as a male seahorse violently ejaculates babies all over the place.
Posted by: s1mplex
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June 22, 2009 11:09 AM
Er, ejaculating.
Posted by: Otto | June 22, 2009 11:09 AM
>>>She's still going on about how fathers behave
You mean sitting on their kids to keep their balls warm?
Sorry but I think fathers are overrated.
That's my experience anyway.
Posted by: mikespeir | June 22, 2009 11:18 AM
I mean, I get the point, I think. I just don't think of penguins as role models.
Posted by: DrAce | June 22, 2009 12:06 PM
Conveniently, the Penguins are also good gay parent role-models.
Posted by: Clemens | June 22, 2009 12:44 PM
Speaking of penguin fathers: In the animal park of Nuremberg, two gay penguins have adopted an egg, successfully bred it and now share duties in raising the chicken.
Posted by: Joe | June 22, 2009 12:51 PM
Speaking of the Morgan Freeman narrated script for "March of the Penguins" ... It made me sad, that in such a beautiful would-be "documentary" (puh-leeze!), the information-to-sap ratio was SO needlessly low. A completely wasted opportunity to teach the laity some real natural history-cum-evolutionary biology. In fact, if I'm recalling correctly (and I might not be) the loaded word "evolution" did not occur — when by rights it should have been omnipresent — in the film.
Posted by: Dennis | June 22, 2009 1:21 PM
How about a couple of daddy swans with junior? I saw these at the weekend and am convinced they are both males! They appear to have kidnapped a cygnet to raise.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dens-pics/3646628932/sizes/l/in/set-72157619275528648/
Posted by: Dennis | June 22, 2009 1:23 PM
How about a couple of daddy swans with junior? I saw these at the weekend and am convinced they are both males! They appear to have kidnapped a cygnet to raise.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dens-pics/3646628932/sizes/l/in/set-72157619275528648/
Posted by: Kim | June 22, 2009 2:34 PM
Bettas (Siamese fighting fish) are GREAT dads.
Posted by: woozy | June 22, 2009 2:42 PM
---She's still going on about how fathers behave
You mean sitting on their kids to keep their balls warm? Sorry but I think fathers are overrated. That's my experience anyway.
I don't know who "she is" but the statement "animal parents give us insight into how human families work", while inocuous, really needs to be taken with gallons of salt and... oh, never mind, grumble, But penguins are penguins and humans are humans and anthropomorphism is .... usually insipid at best.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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June 22, 2009 2:53 PM
Look at the name on the title of the thread, Mary. AKA Mary Myers, the Trophy WifeTM.Posted by: woozy | June 22, 2009 3:06 PM
Look at the name on the title of the thread, Mary. AKA Mary Myers, the Trophy WifeTM
Ah...
I was wondering if "she" might be some dimwit seeing christian "family values" where she wants to look and making the rules as she goes along.
Guess not.
To make up for it, I'll point out that although I said anthropomorphism is insipid at best, I'll back-pedal and also say it's nice to see counter-examples in nature to man-the-hunter/provider/etc. over-generalization.
Posted by: MattyS | June 22, 2009 5:30 PM
Paternal role model? You never know - we could be witnessing penguin paedophilia here :(
Posted by: tinteajem | June 23, 2009 10:55 AM
My father killed himself when I was eight...Happy f@ck#ng Father's Day.