Current Events > this National Geographic article uses the term 'cuckolding' unironically

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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/05/basic-instincts-wattled-jacana/

What kind of dad stays home with the kids while their mother is out having sex? A wattled jacana dad—even when he knows that he’s being cuckolded and the offspring he’s minding may not be his.

Several species of Jacana are among the animal world’s most extreme cases of sex-role reversal, says behavioral ecologist Peter Wrege of Cornell University. An assertive female collects a harem of up to five smaller males. In the span of about a week, she lays four eggs in one male’s nest while continuing to mate openly with him and others—“as many as 65 matings for one clutch,” Wrege says.

Edit: I realize it's "cuckolded" but whatever

Extra:

Proof that these birds just aren't loyal

Even in monogamous bird species, a female may “sneak copulations elsewhere,” he says. But as Wrege and colleague Stephen Emlen observed during years of research in Panama, the wattled jacana female’s cuckoldry is both public and frequent. To see how that affects paternity of offspring, they tracked dozens of birds’ mating and egg laying, took blood samples, and ran DNA tests.
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lol
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damn, even the birds are becoming more left

Did you literally just search topics for "cuck" lmfao
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Bok_Choi posted...

Did you literally just search topics for "cuck" lmfao

yup. And bumped them all to the frontpage.

Cuckolding existed before the internet found it
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