Are 90% of giraff gay – or have their lovg looks been misunrstood? | Animal behavur | The Guardian

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• ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?
• LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
• ARE 90 PER CENT OF GIRAFF GAY? LABOUR MP DAWN BUTLER SPARKED A STORM WH HER CLAIM
• EXPERTS ARE NOW DIVID AS TO WHETHER OR NOT GIRAFF ARE ACTUALLY GAY
• A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
• SENR LABOUR FIGUR REPORTEDLY EMBROILED ROW OVER WHETHER GIRAFF ARE GAY

ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?

Photograph: Buck Forter/Getty ImagShortcutsDawn Butler’s claims regardg animal sexualy have been lled ‘offensive’ and ‘homophobic’ by one of Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers.

“Nety per cent of giraff are gay, ” Dawn Butler, the shadow secretary for women and equali, told a PkNews awards event earlier this month. ”Butler’s words were meant as praise for the school curriculum, which teach children that is normal for people to be gay. However, Jeremy Corbyn’s senr domtic policy adviser, Lachlan Stuart, rpond angrily on Twter over what he felt also meant about gay people.

“It is a ludicro, offensive, homophobic claim, ” Stuart said, sistg stead that the same-sex physil ntact observed between giraff the wild is “not gay behavur” at all, but a display of domance.

LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS

“While I totally agree wh Dawn Butler’s ment that we should accept people for who they are, she is rrect her ment that giraff are gay, ” Fennsy says.

ARE 90 PER CENT OF GIRAFF GAY? LABOUR MP DAWN BUTLER SPARKED A STORM WH HER CLAIM

”Even so, is probably a mistake to ll any giraff “gay”. “People always e up wh the argument that homosexualy is somehow agast nature. " a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals.

Scientists have observed homosexual behavr hundreds of animal speci, om sects to sheep. Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i.

Homosexualy is most wispread among animals wh a plex herd life. Homosexualy also plays a social role among other male animals, such as big horn sheep and lns.

EXPERTS ARE NOW DIVID AS TO WHETHER OR NOT GIRAFF ARE ACTUALLY GAY

But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci. “This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’?

Or so says one study to giraffe homosexual behavur. You probably wouldn't have learned about blogy class, but homosexual behavur is very mon all across the animal kgdom (some zoologists timate that about 1, 500 animal speci are known to display some form of ).

Homosexual relatnships the animal world are not que a new thg. However, for giraff, you will be surprised to learn that 94% of male giraff are homosexual. There are hundreds of lns of gay people our society.

A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN

Bee homosexual relatnships also appear very much the natural world. The report shows that 94% of the giraff' behavr they observed was homosexual. This suggts that there are heterosexual behavrs that rearchers have not disvered; and there may be more s of homosexual relatnships than they observed.

Homosexual behavr is also different om the heterosexual relatnship giraff.

SENR LABOUR FIGUR REPORTEDLY EMBROILED ROW OVER WHETHER GIRAFF ARE GAY

Male giraff 94% of giraff' behavr is homosexual. Homosexual relatns mt be some thoughtful activy the giraffe society, but we do not know this particular behavr of them. Many other animals also have homosexual behavr such as rats, elephants, lns, monkeys and about 20 speci of bats; and homosexual relatnships are more mon mal than femal.

For s of homosexual relatnships the same animal world, we n unrstand the blogil law of that behavr more clearly. When female goats, female sheep, hens and ws appear homosexual behavr, farmers know that this is a sign that they are ready to mate. Long-tailed lizards and Komondo dragons n reproduce monotono; Homosexualy of this speci is a way to stimulate ovulatn.

The femal often behave homosexual relatnships to create lks and divi stat the herd. Bonobo chimpanze also often have homosexual behavr.