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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?

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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.

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 *

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.

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

“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”.

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

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

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.

SENR LABOUR FIGUR REPORTEDLY EMBROILED ROW OVER WHETHER GIRAFF ARE GAY

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.

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.

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