Gay animals imply homosexualy is natural
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11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.
"We fd the plete oppose of what people were sayg before, which was generally that the more homosexual sex animals have, the ls babi they will have, " Vcent Savolaen, a profsor of anismic blogy at Imperial College London the U. "This is the first time we n show that homosexual behavr the animals was part geilly based, " said Savolaen.
The fdgs, he add, uld affect how we view homosexualy among humans. "We share an anctor wh rh monkeys, and this study, we argue that maybe our past, homosexual behavr might have evolved humans and maybe was also beneficial as we see the monkeys, " he said.
GAY ANIMALS
Homosexual behavr is not limed to humans. Blogists have reported homosexual behavr many speci of wild animal, rangg om bats and birds to dolphs and primat. When animals engage homosexual behavr, one might assume that they vt ls time and energy on reproductn.
So rais the qutn of how homosexual behavr manag to evolve and ntue to exist wh a populatn. The unrlyg prumptn is that there is not only a st associated wh engagg homosexual activy, but also that variatn such behavr is passed down om one generatn to the next.
The cultural stigma surroundg homosexualy, for stance, uld lead to the unrreportg of homosexual activy. Our rults may help to challenge the beliefs and bat prejudice agast homosexualy and bisexualy. MaRearchers have documented same-sex socsexual behavur (SSB, sometim termed ‘homosexual’1, 2 or ‘same-sex sexual’3, 4 behavur; see Methods) animals as diverse as sects3, 4, reptil3, birds1, 3, felids3, bats3, cetaceans1, 3 and primat1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.