madsciences:

koryos:

“it’s an abomination against nature!” ah yes, nature, the place where a species of mite has babies that hatch inside the mother’s belly, have sex with their siblings inside their mother’s belly, then consume their dying mother from the inside out. beautiful nature

Here I am to ruin nature for everyone!╭( ･ㅂ･)و  Depressing reality ahead!

Deer regularly eat carrion and have also been filmed eating eggs and baby birds from nests. Cows and sheep do this as well; In fact it seems to be a pretty regular occurrence amongst ungulates.

Male honey bees, called drones, compete to mate with the queen during a nuptial flight. If they succeed, their dicks explode and they die.

Bottlenose dolphins are absolutely horrible. Aside from the fairly well know fact that they regularly sexually assault each other and other porpoises, they also kill their own young and the young of other species, torture other marine life for fun, terrorize pufferfish to get high, and even try to assault people.

The tongue eating louse (cymothoa exigua) is a parasitic crustacean that enters through a fish’s gills, then attaches itself to its tongue and severs the blood vessels so it falls off. It then attaches itself so it can feed on blood, becoming the fish’s new tongue.

Cordyceps and Leucochloridium paradoxum. Just sayin.

Many STDs that humans carry are also carried by other animals. Rabbits commonly have syphilis, baboons often have herpes and as many as 50% of koalas have chlamydia.

Surplus killing! Carnivorous animals will often kill as much as they can, regardless of need. Some animals, like weasels, do this most commonly to cache it for later. Others just eat their favorite bits and leave the rest to rot. 

(it’s also not uncommon for adult carnivores to use the young of other, smaller animals like a volleyball until they die. This is seen in orcas flinging seals, dolphins hurling baby sharks around, lions terrorizing hyenas, and wolves ganging up on fox kits.)

Infanticide is a common tactic in nature to bring females that already have young back into estrus. Lions do it, dolphins do it (are we surprised), and to a lesser extent, gorillas do it. Unfortunately, when gorillas do it, the offender will often proceed to cannibalize it. This doesn’t even include amphibians, fish and reptiles, for which cannibalizing their own eggs or young is much more common.

Even butterflies aren’t exempt. They drink nectar, but they also feed on sweat, tears, urine, mud, rotting flesh, feces and blood. This is actually why butterflies occasionally land on people; They taste with their feet and can smell the salt in your sweat and blood. 

This species of negligent, necrophiliac frogs that drown each other while mating but don’t let that ruin the mood.

Also, most species are well documented to masturbate! Including walruses, who have penises long enough for adult males to reach their own with their mouths, and dolphins, who sometimes use dead marine life to get the job done. (Videos exist documenting both of these. I’m not gonna link them, I’m just throwing that out there.)

In short, there’s very little that would actually qualify as an abomination against nature. In fact, if something seems like an abomination, nature is usually the one that came up with it in the first place.