Gay animals imply homosexualy is natural
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GAY ANIMALS
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. "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.
For the animals, there is documented evince of homosexual behavr of one or more of the followg kds: sex, urtship, affectn, pair bondg, or parentg, as noted rearcher and thor Bce Bagemihl's 1999 book Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy.
HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
Bagemihl wr that the prence of same-sex sexual behavr was not "officially" observed on a large sle until the 1990s due to observer bias ed by social attus towards nonheterosexual people, makg the homosexual theme taboo.[2][3] Bagemihl vot three chapters, "Two Hundred Years at Lookg at Homosexual Wildlife", "Explag (Away) Animal Homosexualy" and "Not For Breedg Only" his 1999 book Blogil Exuberance to the "documentatn of systematic prejudic" where he not "the prent ignorance of blogy li precisely s sgle-md attempt to fd reproductive (or other) 'explanatns' for homosexualy, transgenr, and non-procreative and alternative heterosexuali."[4] Petter Bøckman, amic adviser for the Agast Nature? They mt realize that animals n have sex wh who they will, when they will and whout nsiratn to a rearcher's ethil prcipl." Homosexual behavr is found amongst social birds and mammals, particularly the sea mammals and the primat.[3]. Bagemihl's rearch shows that homosexual behavr, not necsarily sex, has been documented about five hundred speci as of 1999, rangg om primat to gut worms.[2][5] Homosexualy animals is seen as ntroversial by social nservativ bee asserts the naturalns of homosexualy humans, while others unter that has no implitns and is nonsensil to equate natural animal behavrs to moraly.[6][7] Sexual preference and motivatn is always ferred om behavr.
The rrect age of the term homosexual is that an animal exhibs homosexual behavr, however this article nforms to the age by morn rearch,[8][9][10][11] applyg the term homosexualy to all sexual behavr (pulatn, genal stimulatn, matg gam and sexual display behavr) between animals of the same sex. Even if homosexualy were a sex-lked tra (see prev post) this cince would be unexpectedly high One of the more mon sex-lked tras, red-green lor bldns occurs about 8 percent of men which is far higher than most other leter gen. Regardls of the particular blogil mechanism through which homosexualy aris, is a pervasive phenomenon the animal kgdom, a fact that discreds the mon argument that is "unnatural.
" Acrdg to Joan Roughgarn, a trans-genred blogist who studied such phenomena, there is documented evince of homosexual behavr for some 450 different speci and undocumented reports for about another thoand speci (1). Among primat, perhaps the most pervasive, and most enthiastic exprsn of homosexualy is found amongst bonobos (a speci fairly closely related to mon chimpanze). In the last post, I argued that exclive homosexualy humans n be partly explaed terms of gen on the X-chromosome that crease reproductive succs for femal who rry them.