Once a very Reverend man named Morris, an opponent of Charles Darwin’s and a man with a Victorian sense of propriety, urged his parishioners to emulate the fidelity of a small bird called the dunnock. Be thou like the dunnock, he told them – the female and the male impeccably faithful to each other.
What would the Rev. Morris have made of the scandalous truth? shock horror
Far from being monogamous, the dunnocks, from a Victorian point of view, had shockingly lax morals. The female dunnock often takes not one but two males as partners.
What would the Rev. Morris have made of the scandalous truth? shock horror
Far from being monogamous, the dunnocks, from a Victorian point of view, had shockingly lax morals. The female dunnock often takes not one but two males as partners.
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