At Slate, Will Orem remds that many speci of animals are homosexual, though very few are exclively so. There is no evince that any animals other than human animals are homophobic: Not as far as we know. Homosexual behavr has been documented hundreds of animal speci, but the same do not hold for gay-bashg. For starters, few animals are exclively gay. Two female Japane maqu might have playful sex wh each other on Tuday, then mate wh mal on Wednday. Pairs of male elephants sometim form years-long pannships that clu sexual activy, while their heterosexual uplgs tend to be one-night stands. For the and many other speci, sexual preferenc seem to be fluid rather than bary: Gay sex don’t make them gay, and straight sex don’t make them straight. In the s, the ncept of homophobia simply don’t apply.
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- GAY ANIMALS WH THEIR HOMOSEXUAL NATURE
- 5 ANIMALS THAT DISPLAY HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVROVER 1,500 SPECI HAVE BEEN FOUND TO ENGAGE SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTERSSTEPHANIE LEGUICHARD·FOLLOW4 M READ·AUG 5, 2020--1SHAREPHOTO BY RANAE SMH ON UNSPLASHAS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY, I’VE ALWAYS BEEN UNNERVED WHEN PEOPLE CLAIM THAT ANYTHG VIATG OM HETEROSEXUALY IS “UNNATURAL.”SOMETIM ’S BIGOTS ARGUG THAT “BEG GAY IS A CHOICE.” OTHER TIM ’S SCIENCE-MD PEOPLE WHO FEEL THE NEED TO DISMISS ANYTHG THAT DON’T HAVE A “CLEAR EVOLUTNARY PURPOSE.” WHETHER THEIR REASONG IS WELL-TENTNED OR NOT, THEY’RE WRONG — FAR OM BEG “UNNATURAL,” HOMOSEXUALY IS FOUND NEARLY EVERY RNER OF THE ANIMAL KGDOM. IT’S BEEN FOUND SOME OF OUR CLOST ANIMAL RELATIV, AND SOME OF OUR MOST DISTANT NON-RELATNS, LIKE SECTS, FISH, AND BIRDS.IF HOMOSEXUALY WERE UNNATURAL — SOME KD OF EVOLUTNARY GLCH OR ANOMALY — WOULDN’T BE READILY OBSERVABLE SO MANY SPECI. HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED AROUND 1,500 SPECI, AND THE NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO GROW AS SCIENTISTS NTUE TO LOOK FOR THE BEHAVRS MORE TENTNALLY.1. BONOBOS
GAY ANIMALS WH THEIR HOMOSEXUAL NATURE
LGBTQ+ is not only among human begs, but also wh animals. Know more about Gay animals and their homosexualy behavur * animals exclusively homosexual *
From the middle of October until next summer the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo will host the first exhibn that foc on homosexualy the animal kgdom. Homosexualy is both mon and highly sential the liv of a number of speci, " explas Petter Boeckman, who is the amic advisor for the "Agast Nature's Orr? Among some animals homosexual behavur is rare, some havg sex wh the same genr only a part of their life, while other animals, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, homosexualy is practiced throughout their liv.
Related StoriDe rearchers fd human DNA sequence divergence after spl om mon anctor of chimpanzeRearchers intify regns of the viral envelope of simian foamy vis targeted by ntralizg antibodiExperimental vacce agast Marburg vis shows promise first--human clil trialAnimals that live a pletely homosexual life n also be found. Ined, there is a number of animals which homosexual behavur has never been observed, such as many sects, passere birds and small mammals. "To turn the approach on s head: No speci has been found which homosexual behavur has not been shown to exist, wh the exceptn of speci that never have sex at all, such as sea urchs and aphis.
5 ANIMALS THAT DISPLAY HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVROVER 1,500 SPECI HAVE BEEN FOUND TO ENGAGE SAME-SEX SEXUAL ENUNTERSSTEPHANIE LEGUICHARD·FOLLOW4 M READ·AUG 5, 2020--1SHAREPHOTO BY RANAE SMH ON UNSPLASHAS A PROUD MEMBER OF THE LGBTQIA+ MUNY, I’VE ALWAYS BEEN UNNERVED WHEN PEOPLE CLAIM THAT ANYTHG VIATG OM HETEROSEXUALY IS “UNNATURAL.”SOMETIM ’S BIGOTS ARGUG THAT “BEG GAY IS A CHOICE.” OTHER TIM ’S SCIENCE-MD PEOPLE WHO FEEL THE NEED TO DISMISS ANYTHG THAT DON’T HAVE A “CLEAR EVOLUTNARY PURPOSE.” WHETHER THEIR REASONG IS WELL-TENTNED OR NOT, THEY’RE WRONG — FAR OM BEG “UNNATURAL,” HOMOSEXUALY IS FOUND NEARLY EVERY RNER OF THE ANIMAL KGDOM. IT’S BEEN FOUND SOME OF OUR CLOST ANIMAL RELATIV, AND SOME OF OUR MOST DISTANT NON-RELATNS, LIKE SECTS, FISH, AND BIRDS.IF HOMOSEXUALY WERE UNNATURAL — SOME KD OF EVOLUTNARY GLCH OR ANOMALY — WOULDN’T BE READILY OBSERVABLE SO MANY SPECI. HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED AROUND 1,500 SPECI, AND THE NUMBER IS EXPECTED TO GROW AS SCIENTISTS NTUE TO LOOK FOR THE BEHAVRS MORE TENTNALLY.1. BONOBOS
As a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ muny, I’ve always been unnerved when people claim that anythg viatg om heterosexualy is “unnatural.” Sometim ’s bigots argug that “beg gay is… * animals exclusively homosexual *
The problem is that rearchers have not seen for themselv that the phenomenon exists or they have been nfed when observg homosexual behavur or that they are fearful of beg ridiculed by their lleagu.
Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas.