Can Cats and Dogs be Gay? Let’s Ask Science

Contents:

• IS MY PET GAY?
• PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?
• ARE THERE ANY GAY TS?
• DO YOU BELIEVE GAY CATS EXIST?
• GAY TS?
• CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? [MYTH BTED!]
• CAN CATS BE GAY?
• CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? EXPLORG HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS

IS MY PET GAY?

However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans. New work by evolutnary blogists suggts that perhaps, bld by historil homophobia, we have been askg the wrong qutn all along. In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent.

In other words, rearchers assumed that homosexual behavr only happens when animals are isolated om members of the oppose sex.

Therefore, acrdg to experts, many female Japane maqu nnot be nsired eher preferentially homo- or heterosexual. On the other hand, bee female maqu will reproduce wh mal throughout their lifetime regardls of their tert homosexual behavr, the end the relatnships do not acce any st to lifetime reproductn. But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals.

PURR-I POST: ARE GAY CATS A THG?

By sheddg the taboo of the study of homosexualy wildlife and makg the shift om Why? Are two male ts displayg a homosexual preference when they are mountg each other?

Read on to fd out, you know you want to… ?The sop:Across the animal kgdom, many speci (cludg ts) engage homosexual acts. However, scientists currently believe that homosexualy among animals is eher ed by an nate need or the rult of tratn, rather than a sexual preference.Why would a t be homosexual?In 2012, rearch found that homosexualy animals is much more mon than we prevly thought. In fact, homosexual behavr has been observed over 1,500 speci, om sects to mammals [1].

Lns have even been known to form male-only groups that repeatedly engage homosexual behavrs.

ARE THERE ANY GAY TS?

Male feral ts have also been known to mount each other[2].So, what is gog on?Homosexualy don’t seem to make much sense when you thk about .

So uld homosexual behavr simply be a way of rercg iendships and keepg the peace?PracticeA simple explanatn for same-sex pairg ts is practice! So, you mt troduce new pets slowly to rce strs and potential aggrsn.Cats n show domance by forcg another t to assume the female matg posnSo, uld my t be gay?Clearly, scientists have e up wh a range of alternative reasons for homosexual behavr ts. Cats n’t tell if they have lovg feelgs towards one another!In orr to be gay, ts need to show a strong preference for other ts of the same sex.

So, uld we be misterpretg the signs based on our own views?Can homosexualy ts be misterpreted?Here’s another problem. The fact that our domtic fel are pable of adaptg this way, suggts they are more socially plex than we realized.So n ts be homosexual? But so far, seems as though the possibily is a ltle far-fetched!Referenc:Do Animals Exhib Homosexualy?

DO YOU BELIEVE GAY CATS EXIST?

– Yale Scientific Magaze EEE 11(4) () What You Need to Know About Sexual Aggrsn In Ntered Cats () /stable/4533150/wiki/Homosexual_behavr__animals. However, when you look at the animal kgdom as a whole, pecially those crters who are ee to roam around whout the nf of a human home, the ia of dogs and ts exhibg homosexual behavr is somethg that serv closer attentn.

But before we n terme whether pets n be gay, we first need to set the basele for what is nsired "gay" the animal kgdom. Gay human begs are fed as beg sexually attracted to people of the same sex.

While there's been much speculatn, there's no scientific evince of var animals, pecially hoe pets, beg gay or not.

GAY TS?

He ntu to say that beg exclively gay is "exceptnally rare" the animal kgdom. So, if you're cur if your dog or t is gay, know that there is currently no evince to support this notn at least terms that humans are ed to fg homosexualy.

CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? [MYTH BTED!]

Scientists often study two thgs when tryg to terme whether animals n be gay: exclivy and longevy. To wre this blog post, I spent way more time readg articl on homosexualy ts than I ever thought I would. My search history now clus terms such as “homosexual behavr ts” and “n ts be lbians.

The t likely don’t re one b so if you thk your t is gay, you are ee to label them as such! For those who thk homosexualy is unnatural, there are hundreds of speci of animals that have monstrated homosexual behavrs acrdg to possibly my new favore book, Blogil Exuberance: Homosexualy and Natural Diversy by Bce Bagemihl.

Homosexualy has been observed bighorn sheep, flamgos, gorillas, and whal among many, many others. Cats big and ltle have been observed engagg homosexual behavrs, although some s they may not be actual sexual behavr and stead are jt affectnate behavr between iendly animals. Observatns of homosexual behavr among hoe ts have even been documented the scientific lerature (Fox, 1965).

CAN CATS BE GAY?

This leads to one possible explanatn of why ts may engage homosexual behavr: sexual tratn.

A possible explanatn of why ts may engage homosexual behavr is that ’s a way to get out their sexual tratn, much like they did wh the rabbs the Hagamen study. One that Yamane and other rearchers (Michael, 1961) noted is that homosexual behavr may be terrory related, though Yamane puts forth other potential explanatns cludg practicg for future sexual enunters, rcg sexual enunters between sexual petors, and nfg a male t for a female t heat.

This explas why most studi on t behavr foc on sgular enunters and why you’ll notice above I didn’t talk about long term pairs of ts homosexual pairgs.

CAN DOGS AND CATS BE GAY? EXPLORG HOMOSEXUALY ANIMALS

We wouldn’t expect to see such pairgs heterosexual ts so seeg homosexual pairgs is even ls likely. It n be somethg nocent like lookg at your t as beg gay or n be somethg that has more sister nsequenc.