When you stay faithful to your partner for the rest of your life
The truth is that in the animal kingdom monogamy is not uncommon.
But as man seeks to find occasions to celebrate his feelings for his other half, in a silly way most of the time but at the same time we are bombarded in our daily lives with stories and images that make us wonder if there is true love, a story comes like the one below, which puts a sweet smile on our face that leaves us with nothing.
A story of travels and trials of epic proportions and a love derived from the tales of people.
A story about the relationship of a couple that has been recorded by scientists as one of the longest in the animal kingdom.
A 30-year study of Magellanic penguins, one of the most common but also the most unrecognized species, has revealed one of the most romantic stories in the animal kingdom.
With a life expectancy of about 20 years, this couple was recorded to be “together” for more than 16, their entire reproductive life. Something like highschool sweethearts if we reduce it to human data.
To date, they have each traveled more than 300,000 km in search of food, but each year, they return to the exact same nest that the male had built, flirting with the female for the first time, to find each other among tens of thousands of potential mates. of the colony and breed another generation of small penguins.
Biologists have expressed surprise that despite the fact that this species of penguin is monogamous, couples usually break up quite early, either due to the death of one of them, due to the many dangers of long-distance travel. or from failure to play from one point onwards.
The longest-running relationships between penguins range from 5 to 10 years, but the couple has grown old together on the shores of Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina.
“It is truly incredible how far the penguins swim and how they return to the same nest and companion every year. “The bond they have is awesome,” said Dr. Pablo Garcia Borboroglou, a researcher at the National Research Center of Argentina and President of the Global Penguin Society. Dr. Borboroglu said that with the help of special transceivers and satellites, they hope to find out if penguins are encountered during their giant voyages in the oceans, while he also noted the reduction in the number of penguins – some species and at the point of extinction – due to extinction. and pollution of the seas.
The story may be about a pair of penguins, but again it is almost reassuring to know that despite the adverse conditions, there are some in the animal kingdom who are really trying.
Happy families: Other species that love monogamy
Albatross: These seabirds live up to 80 years and mate for the rest of their lives with the one and only. It has been observed that they may wander in the skies over the oceans for years, but they will always return to their nest and to the same companion.
French angelfish: They live up to 15 years and even if their partner dies, they are not going to look for another match. They travel together, defend their territory together and always eat side by side, for the rest of their lives.
Mikrotos: This type of rodent belongs to only 5% of mammals that are monogamous. They live with their partner forever, but the “always” lasts very little, as they have a life expectancy of only one year, and even if one of them dies, the other will not look for a different match.
Black vultures: These American vultures prove that appearance does not always play a primary role. They live for about 30 years and have been observed attacking other vultures that have drifted away from their mate.
Dwarf Antelope: The Kirk Dik – Dik antelope is another animal that is monogamous. Biologists believed this was because he would rarely find more males than females, but recent research has shown that even if there is another female nearby, the male remains faithful.
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Bonobos: These monkeys live in small, mixed-sex groups and have sex more than any other mammal, and it has been observed that incest is common for them.
Dolphins: Dolphins are one of the few mammals that can be found sexually, not for reproductive purposes, but for pleasure alone, but which usually takes less than a minute.
Collar: The bronze winged Jacana, is a tropical bird that females maintain a male harem, in which they entrust the task of spinning their eggs. Very often, a female can destroy another female’s eggs in order to mate with her male.