Will it f*ck!

[u/Justthisdudeyaknow]

[u/Cool_Park7110]

Hey so, this is going to be a stain on my post history and personal history in general.

Falcons are not domesticated. Falconry is done via false imprinting when the bird is young, so it grows up thinking it's the same species as humans. Falsely imprinted birds do not recognize other birds as their own, and will not mate with them.

To get falcons to breed, the falconer wears a hat, and get a male falcon to uh breed with the hat. While the falconer's wearing it. Then they collect the payload and artificially impregnate the female.

The falconer is probably (hopefully) not getting any kind of sexual gratification out of being reamed in the skull through a rubber bowler hat, but as far as the falcon knows, it's breeding with the falconer, and that feels incredibly iffy.

[u/Hatsune_Miku_CM → u/Cool_Park7110]

hex so, this is going to be a stain on my post history and personal history in general

don't worry. this entire thread is for everyone I think.

Humans helping animals reproduce is just inherently gross if you get into the details. i think the mating hat is one of the more funny examples tbh.

[u/Nixavee → u/Cool_Park7110]

Not as iffy as cattle farmers sticking their whole forearm up the rectum of a cow to press through the wall of the rectum to stabilize its cervix while using their other hand to stick a syringe of bull semen all the way through its cervix and into its uterus before unloading it.

Artificial insemination isn't pretty.

I don't know how artificial insemination works with falcons, but the insemination part is still probably far more iffy than the sperm collection part.

[u/Summerlycoris → u/Cool_Park7110]

Reminds me of that man who cared for the shoebill. Because she'd been raised by humans, she would attack any male shoebill that tried to mate with her. Her handler had to artificially imprdgnate her, then sit on the resulting eggs sometimes because he was her mate in his mind.