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).
CAN BIRDS BE GAY? DO BIRDS SHOW HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR?
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.
IS MY BIRD GAY? INFORMATN ABOUT HOMOSEXUAL BIRDS AND PARROTS
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.