Telling someone, you’re interested usually involves quite a few corny pick-up lines, awkward glances, and stiff flirting. Wouldn’t it be easier if we, humans picked our partners the same way animals do? For example, male Galapagos turtles ideas on how to flirt are pretty simple – they stretch their necks, and whoever has the longest, wins the female. And in many penguin species, being flirty constitutes of presenting the female with a pebble. Plain and straightforward. But before you yell “somebody should make a funny animal comic about it,” hold on. Artist Ben Hed already did. The illustrator and character designer from Minnesota have put together a series, answering the questions “How to find a girlfriend the animal way?” and it’s hilarious.
“I’ve been doing Pet Foolery on Instagram for about eight months now, but I’ve been drawing goofy little comics for as long as I can remember,” Ben told Bored Panda.
“My comic ideas seem to gravitate towards animals,” he added. “I live in a house with three dogs, two cats, 15 chickens, and five goats… so that might have something to do with it.”
The artist said that nothing is as rewarding as seeing other people enjoy his comics as much as he does. “Everybody likes funny comics, and everybody likes animals. My scribbles are a combination of both!”
Scroll down to check out the animal flirting examples and tell us in the comments which one of these approaches you’re going to use next time.
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Birds
Galapagos Giant Tortoises
Black Widow Spiders
Penguins
Sloths
Enjoying the series, people said we aren’t that too far off
I laugh out loud when I saw the sloth. Mental pictures are always entertaining, LOL
Now lets add sound to that: https://youtu.be/KjuDYUPWCSk?t=14s
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I relate to the penguin one the most, because my husband always collects rocks whenever we go hiking/to the beach and gives them to me.
Well the rock one is something we kind of do already with Diamonds, and as for the birds he needs a lot more color lol.
"She will either accept the male or eat him". Knowing this, they still approach her. Sex is stronger than titanium.
She keeps eating the males. That's how she got so big.
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The birds ones aren't much different from humans. ♥ (I got the mooooves like Jagger, I got the mooooooves like Jagger, I got the mooooo-hooooooo-hoooooo-hooooo-hooo-hoooo-hooo-hoooo-hooooves like Jaggeeeeer.... ♬♪) And penguins are so cute. They're like little children. The Black Widow one explains why she was never in a romantic affair with Spiderman.
aww man- I have been doing that sloth thing for years.....still single!
Maybe your pitch is off... Have you considered a higher (or lower) pitch?
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Adélie penguins build nests out of stones, and a shortage of stones has pushed many females into "prostitution": they mate with other males in exchange for stones.
Personally, I really enjoy watching animals flirt with each other. Watching a stallion come prancing up to a mare, like 'Heeey Baby! I'm about to rock your world!" and the mare is like, "Oh, c**p, it's Bob. Wham-Bam-Thanke'e-Ma'am and then he's in the wind." He gets so excited and she looks so bored. Not unlike a woman at the club in a college town.
Some species of Octopus flirt by ripping off their genitals and flinging them at the females so they can self inseminate any time they need to for reproduction.
WTF? Thank Bejesus they didn't add that one on here
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Sloth one made my miserable day a good one :D Can't stop laughing visualing all women I know doing that including myself :D
I watched a documentary on wildlife in the arctic and found out that some female penguins engage in prostitution for additional pebbles to complete their nests. "The more you know" ---------------------*
I often wondered what it would be like if human females were like dogs and had heat cycles. So for much of the month males would not even think about love, sex, romance and go about their business and a then bam! Everyone goes crazy.
For the black widow, I feel sorry for him. I thought I was rejected harshly
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYY
I wouldn't mind being courted by some of the species that the male builds the "house" and packs the "pantry" then goes looking for a wife. The modern day version of marrying rich.
The sloth part is true...I watched two sloths on a "date" in Costa Rica. People think sloths are slow, but their "date" lasted only 42 seconds!!! Then the female was done with him...moved quickly through the trees. But the male was kinda wrecked, climbing very slowly back home.
Hmmm...no preying mantis here....or black widow spiders....Now THAT is dedication to the species!
Everyone that says "We already give females overpriced rocks in the hopes they will say yes" needs to watch this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kWu1ifBGU
Hahaha okay this one wasn't too bad actually. The dance one is already done by us in that very shape though:P Neck thing...well it seems it's more common to measure something else among us humans...and rocks one is actually very cute, didn't know this. Kind of like we do with gifts, suppose they don't have that many options over there though:)
On the penguins pic: That's Papa Lazaru! (People in UK might get this reference) :)
I laugh out loud when I saw the sloth. Mental pictures are always entertaining, LOL
Now lets add sound to that: https://youtu.be/KjuDYUPWCSk?t=14s
Load More Replies... I relate to the penguin one the most, because my husband always collects rocks whenever we go hiking/to the beach and gives them to me.
Well the rock one is something we kind of do already with Diamonds, and as for the birds he needs a lot more color lol.
"She will either accept the male or eat him". Knowing this, they still approach her. Sex is stronger than titanium.
She keeps eating the males. That's how she got so big.
Load More Replies... The birds ones aren't much different from humans. ♥ (I got the mooooves like Jagger, I got the mooooooves like Jagger, I got the mooooo-hooooooo-hoooooo-hooooo-hooo-hoooo-hooo-hoooo-hooooves like Jaggeeeeer.... ♬♪) And penguins are so cute. They're like little children. The Black Widow one explains why she was never in a romantic affair with Spiderman.
aww man- I have been doing that sloth thing for years.....still single!
Maybe your pitch is off... Have you considered a higher (or lower) pitch?
Load More Replies... Adélie penguins build nests out of stones, and a shortage of stones has pushed many females into "prostitution": they mate with other males in exchange for stones.
Personally, I really enjoy watching animals flirt with each other. Watching a stallion come prancing up to a mare, like 'Heeey Baby! I'm about to rock your world!" and the mare is like, "Oh, c**p, it's Bob. Wham-Bam-Thanke'e-Ma'am and then he's in the wind." He gets so excited and she looks so bored. Not unlike a woman at the club in a college town.
Some species of Octopus flirt by ripping off their genitals and flinging them at the females so they can self inseminate any time they need to for reproduction.
WTF? Thank Bejesus they didn't add that one on here
Load More Replies... Sloth one made my miserable day a good one :D Can't stop laughing visualing all women I know doing that including myself :D
I watched a documentary on wildlife in the arctic and found out that some female penguins engage in prostitution for additional pebbles to complete their nests. "The more you know" ---------------------*
I often wondered what it would be like if human females were like dogs and had heat cycles. So for much of the month males would not even think about love, sex, romance and go about their business and a then bam! Everyone goes crazy.
For the black widow, I feel sorry for him. I thought I was rejected harshly
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYY
I wouldn't mind being courted by some of the species that the male builds the "house" and packs the "pantry" then goes looking for a wife. The modern day version of marrying rich.
The sloth part is true...I watched two sloths on a "date" in Costa Rica. People think sloths are slow, but their "date" lasted only 42 seconds!!! Then the female was done with him...moved quickly through the trees. But the male was kinda wrecked, climbing very slowly back home.
Hmmm...no preying mantis here....or black widow spiders....Now THAT is dedication to the species!
Everyone that says "We already give females overpriced rocks in the hopes they will say yes" needs to watch this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kWu1ifBGU
Hahaha okay this one wasn't too bad actually. The dance one is already done by us in that very shape though:P Neck thing...well it seems it's more common to measure something else among us humans...and rocks one is actually very cute, didn't know this. Kind of like we do with gifts, suppose they don't have that many options over there though:)
On the penguins pic: That's Papa Lazaru! (People in UK might get this reference) :)
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