Animals and homophobia: Are humans the only speci that discrimat agast gays?

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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

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.

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. Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals.

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

Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports.

A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers.

The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse. ” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc.