Timeline for answer to What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems? by Cort Ammon
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| Mar 8, 2018 at 5:46 | comment | added | Feathercrown | @thedarkwanderer True, but there are slightly better examples on this question because of this answer's drawbacks. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 0:44 | comment | added | Sue VanHattum♦ | It might be more than penguins that 1. mate for life, and yet 2. can form same-sex pair-bonds. For a children's story that comes from a real-life incident, check out And Tango Makes Three. | |
| Mar 8, 2018 at 0:11 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | @Feathercrown The point isn't to be accurate, the point is to be inoffensive. People who object to heteronormative pairings with humans tend not to do so when talking about the mating of animals, so the solution still works. | |
| Mar 6, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | Feathercrown | Interestingly though, I'd stay away from the penguin one. I think people have found penguins can be gay, so it's not as perfect as it seems. | |
| Mar 5, 2018 at 21:04 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @CarlWitthoft Which is not really all that different from marriage of humans (I don't think I need DNA studies to prove this =) ) Apparently for Emperor penguins the infidelity rate is 15%. | |
| Mar 5, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Except that even mate-for-life birds get a lot of action on the side. DNA studies have proved this. | |
| Mar 5, 2018 at 18:31 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |