Penguin Gets Into Bloody Brawl After Finding Cheating Wife and Twitter Is Floored

National Geographic video shows penguins fighting over cheating wife, and Twitter is going through some emotions.

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National Geographic’s savage video of a penguin discovering his wife is cheating on him—and then fighting her new man—put Twitter on a rollercoaster of emotions Friday.

A fight breaks out when a husband comes home and finds his wife with another penguin. pic.twitter.com/9ejYGcJ5TJ

Viewers knew the video was going to switch from G-rated March of the Penguins to a bloody mess when the narrator said, “But this husband has come home to find his wife with another penguin...” From there, the husband and the other homewrecking penguin (narrator’s words, not mine) start to beat each other to a bloody pulp. “He flips out. His strategy is simple: batter the homewrecker,” the narrator says.

Horrified viewers then learn penguins’ flippers have solid bones that they use like “baseball bats,” hitting each other with up to eight blows a second. The match ends in a stalemate and they call the female penguin to decide who won—and of course, she picks the homewrecker. But the husband isn’t going down that easy and picks another fight. If the penguins gouging each other’s eyes wasn’t sickening enough, the female is called to choose again and again she goes with the homewrecker.

Still need to process that? Allow Twitter to help.

I didn't think a video of a homewrecking penguin would affect me like this, but here we are.
That penguin needs a guys night out
Husband penguin was prolly paying all the rent, getting all the fish, taking care of his babies. And she got "bored"

Some viewers recalled other famous love triangles:

"FRANK!"
"SHUT UP! Can't you see 2 penguins are talking." pic.twitter.com/luWE4ldO0V

And Twitter's got some questions about what happens to the broken up penguin family from here:

@NatGeoChannel do penguins have courts to fight over custody & visitation rights?! We need answers 😭😭😭😭😭
@NatGeoChannel gotta release a "where are they now" joint on that shit fam 😂😭😭😂😭

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