Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay | Live Science

Contents:

• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?
• IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

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.

Dmmg by, and an stance of homosexual behavur the lser goln-backed woodpecker, Dopium benghalense, J Bombay Nat Hist Soc, 1962, vol.

Homosexual behavur animals, The psychology of sexual diversy, 1984OxfordBlackwell Scientific(pg. 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.

CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?

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.

IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS

But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals.