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homosexuality in elephants

"We didn't pay 37 ln zlotys for the largt elephant hoe Europe to have a gay elephant live there," said Michal Grz, a nservative uncillor the Polish cy of Poznan, Rters reported last Friday.

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‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG

*Note: We tentnally do not e terms such as “heterosexual” or “homosexual” to prevent any nflatn between human sexualy and nonhuman animal sexual behavrs.

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.

In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

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.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HOMOSEXUALITY IN ELEPHANTS

11 Animal Speci That Prove Beg Gay Is Natural.

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