Lbian Albatross and Gay Giraff? The Science on Same-Sex Sexualy Animals | Audubon

Contents:

• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
• ARE MY LOVEBIRDS GAY?
• IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
• CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE GAY?

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal. They're not alone: More than 130 bird speci are known to engage homosexual behavr at least ocsnally, a fact that has puzzled all, evolutnary terms same-sex matg seems to rce the birds' chanc of reproductive succs. In some speci the same-sex pairs even raise young (nceived wh outsi partners, obvly) and stay together for several 2007, a team led by Geoff MacFarlane, a blogist at the Universy of Newstle Atralia, reported that male homosexual behavr was more mon polygyno bird speci, where mal mate wh numero femal, and that female homosexual behavr was more mon monogamo speci.

Srg sexTo fd out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavr, MacFarlane and his team exhstively bed the lerature for acunts of same-sex urtship, mountg, or pair bondg.

They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild. For each speci, the team lculated the equency of homosexual behavr as well as both sex' ntributns to parentg.

LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS

Overall, homosexual behavr amounted to ls than 5 percent of all sexual activy the 93 speci, though some s was much higher. And sure enough, there was a strong rrelatn between a speci' matg system and s homosexual behavr. The balance shifted to femal socially monogamo speci, where the sex spl the work more far, female homosexualy hasn't turned up the handful of birds where each female mat wh many mal, but MacFarlane's team predicts may.

"Homosexual behavr is more likely to be mataed and not be selected agast than if you are a sex that r a lot for offsprg and only has one or few reproductive partners, " he wh plenty of reproductive prospects, a ltle homosexual behavr won't have much effect on long-term reproductive succs, MacFarlane said. "That's que different to what the tradnal argument is the lerature, where homosexual behavr is seen as a st. "In some s, homosexual allianc may even be adaptive, helpg dividuals fend terrori, advance their social stat, or get help wh parental re.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

Although rarely addrsed the lerature, sexual teractns between dividuals of the same sex occur birds, wh over 130 avian speci worldwi beg documented as engagg same-sex sexual, same-sex, or homosexual behavrs (Bagemihl 1999). Although the patterns of behavr may be cricized when termed same-sex sexual, many thors have fed the associatns as “isosexual, ” “trasexual, ” or “homosexual” (e. Animal homosexualy and natural diversy, 1999LondonProfile Books Ltd.., Courtship.

Homosexual behavur wild orange-onted parakeets, Condor, 1966, vol. Homosexual behavur and female-male mountg mammals-a first survey, Mamm Rev, 1984, vol. Reciprol homosexual mountg alie pengus Pygoscelis aliae, Emu, 1998, vol.

Goslgs of gay gee, Nature, 1989, vol.

ARE MY LOVEBIRDS GAY?

Homosexual pulatns by male tree swallows, Wilson Bull, 1994, vol. Induced homosexual behavur male hoe fch: the “prisoner effect”, Ethol El Evol, 1999, vol. Dmmg by, and an stance of homosexual behavur the lser goln-backed woodpecker, Dopium benghalense, J Bombay Nat Hist Soc, 1962, vol.

Homosexualy and imprtg, Psych Forsch, 1965, vol.

Homosexual behavur animals, The psychology of sexual diversy, 1984OxfordBlackwell Scientific(pg. Homosexual behavur primat: a review of evince and theory, Int J Primatol, 1995, vol. “People always e up wh the argument that homosexualy is somehow agast nature.

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

" a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals. Scientists have observed homosexual behavr hundreds of animal speci, om sects to sheep. Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i.

CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

Homosexualy is most wispread among animals wh a plex herd life. Homosexualy also plays a social role among other male animals, such as big horn sheep and lns. But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci.

“This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’? And baby lovebirds but then I realized no eggs might mean that their gay or somethg but my qutn is even if they are both boys would they mate so much and make a nt their ntg box anyway one of my birds seemed a ltle sick and I thought maybe was morng sickns LOL but do you thk they are gay lovebirds who thk they n have chicks or are they straight and n have chicks? I would not say they are gay, but that they have bond.

I don't know why is important to know if they are gay or not? 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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

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.

Intertgly enough, siar views once existed ncerng human homosexualy.

CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE GAY?

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.

By sheddg the taboo of the study of homosexualy wildlife and makg the shift om Why? We might thk that homosexualy do not exist birds or parrots.

Sce a major drive the animal kgdom is to reproduce, and bee homosexualy do not serve this functn, we may assume that there is no place for same-sex relatnships.