Wh all the tert duck sex the days, a lecture by the scientist who disvered gay mallard necrophilia seems timely.
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DUCK | CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
In the 1960s, he was the wild observg the big horns and saw that they basilly live an entirely homosexual society until the age of six or seven.
by: Gayle Guyardo.
In the new YA tle Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), two-time Natnal Book Award falist and New York Tim btsellg thor Elt Schrefer jos Gayle Guyardo the host of the natnally syndite health and wellns show Bloom and prents a well-rearched exploratn of queer behavr the animal world—om albatross to bonobos to clownfish and sharp and wty prose—aid by humoro ics om artist Jul Zuckerberg—Schrefer science, history, anthropology, and soclogy to illtrate the diversy of sexual behavr the animal world.
HOW GAY DEAD DUCK SEX WAS DISVERED
Wh all the tert duck sex the days, a lecture by the scientist who disvered gay mallard necrophilia seems timely. In a TED Talk posted onle this month, Dutch blogist Ke Moeliker, a curator at the Natural History Mm Rotterdam, explas how he beme the first scientist to document homosexual necrophilia ducks.
And, look, both are of the male sex — homosexual necrophilia, '" Moeliker told the dience.
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.