Are 90% of giraff gay – or have their lovg looks been misunrstood? | Animal behavur | The Guardian

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• ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?
• 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
• MEET PENGUS, GAY GIRAFF TO SEE ... NORMAL

ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?

Photograph: Buck Forter/Getty ImagShortcutsDawn Butler’s claims regardg animal sexualy have been lled ‘offensive’ and ‘homophobic’ by one of Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers. “Nety per cent of giraff are gay, ” Dawn Butler, the shadow secretary for women and equali, told a PkNews awards event earlier this month.

”Butler’s words were meant as praise for the school curriculum, which teach children that is normal for people to be gay. However, Jeremy Corbyn’s senr domtic policy adviser, Lachlan Stuart, rpond angrily on Twter over what he felt also meant about gay people. “It is a ludicro, offensive, homophobic claim, ” Stuart said, sistg stead that the same-sex physil ntact observed between giraff the wild is “not gay behavur” at all, but a display of domance.

“While I totally agree wh Dawn Butler’s ment that we should accept people for who they are, she is rrect her ment that giraff are gay, ” Fennsy says. ”Even so, is probably a mistake to ll any giraff “gay”.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

This is bee they have often been lled the ‘gayt’ animal. Sexual inti such as gay, straight and bisexual are terms that we e as humans to scribe ourselv.

MEET PENGUS, GAY GIRAFF TO SEE ... NORMAL

Or so says one study to giraffe homosexual behavur. You probably wouldn't have learned about blogy class, but homosexual behavur is very mon all across the animal kgdom (some zoologists timate that about 1, 500 animal speci are known to display some form of ). Did you know that homosexual behavr has been observed more than 1, 500 different speci of animals?

Regardls of what your sixth gra relign teacher may have said, homosexual activy is natural and the overwhelmg majory of animals are queer. It’s actually extremely rare for any animal to exclively exhib heterosexual or homosexual tennci. So, why are people still shocked that human begs (who are also members of the animal kgdom) engage homosexual behavr as well?!