Observations of Adelie Penguins' Behaviors by Leavitt

George Murray Leavick, the ship surgeon on the tragic South Pole expedition, spent 11 months at Cape Adare where he witnessed and recorded the complete breeding cycle of Adelie penguins. Among the observed behaviors were forced copulation, necrophilia, and homosexual activities among the penguins. Leavick was puzzled by these behaviors, leading him to encode his findings in a Greek cipher to protect them from scrutiny. Despite attempts to publish his observations on penguin sexual behavior, it was censored for almost a century.