"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. 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. But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
Homosexual behavr, which has been documented extensively non-human animals, has fascated rearchers for s as prents a paradox for evolutnary blogists. The lerature on this topic is vast wh upwards of eighty proposed theori explag the prence of homosexual behavr animals.
Animal mols have been valuable tools rearch, but their role as applied to homosexual behavr humans is problematic. This review will analyze five key theori explaed by animal mols and three key human-based theori to monstrate that the prent strategy for unrstandg human homosexual behavr is flawed. We see here exampl of homosexual behavr servg as an adaptatn: ls f femal that uld not acquire a male mate still have the chance to rema petive.
Exampl of homosexual behavr servg as a way to strengthen social bonds have been studied non-primate speci as well. Further, the homosexual behavr observed mal seems to lead to the formatn of “iendships” that were mataed for longer than half a year. In the exampl of Social Glue theory, sexual behavr (cludg but not limed to homosexual behavr) among members of a speci rults stronger social bonds.