Durg an alarmgly meanrg and sweary after-dner speech for onle LGBT newspaper PkNews earlier this month, Dawn Butler clared that almost all giraff were gay.
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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?
* giraffe gay *
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
The gay giraffe row that spl senr Labour figur is now dividg experts, who n't agree on whether the animals are gay or not. * giraffe gay *
“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.
”Even so, is probably a mistake to ll any giraff “gay”.
ARE 90 PER CENT OF GIRAFF GAY? LABOUR MP DAWN BUTLER SPARKED A STORM WH HER CLAIM
“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.
A JOURNEY INTO THE WORLD OF GIRAFF, A SUBCULTURE FOR VERY TALL GAY MEN
There are hundreds of lns of gay people our society. Bee homosexual relatnships also appear very much the natural world. The report shows that 94% of the giraff' behavr they observed was homosexual.
SENR LABOUR FIGUR REPORTEDLY EMBROILED ROW OVER WHETHER GIRAFF ARE GAY
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. 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.