"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.
Contents:
- ‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
- 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
- LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
‘GAY ELEPHANT’ IS JT THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
* homosexual 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. What Michal don’t know, apparently, is that homosexualy is rampant the animal kgdom.
The five text on the subject, Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy, wrten by Canadian blogist and lguist Bce Bagemihl, is an obssive talog of a phenomenon so wispread that the n barely nta . For the Cliff’s Not versn, you have only to look to a 2006 article on the subject, which pots out that big horn sheep live “homosexual societi” which they “bond through genal lickg and anal terurse.
The last remag py was recently unearthed providg valuable sights to animal homosexualy rearch.
5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
But forays to animal homosexualy rearch long predate Levick, wh observatns published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s. More than 200 years later, rearch has moved past some of the taboos those early rearchers faced and shown that homosexualy is much more mon than prevly thought. Homosexualy is wispread, wh bisexualy even more prevalent across speci.
Rearchers are now gog beyond jt observg though, wh rearchers at Imperial leadg the way unravellg how, and why, homosexualy is found across nature.
Spir monkeys are New World primate speci for which homosexual behavur has not been prevly reported. This suggts that homosexual activy is not a recent human nstct, cultural or even evolutnary terms, but stead occurs along many branch on the tree of life. In the past, homosexual behavur was often ignored bee supposedly ntradicted Darw's theory of evolutn.
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
Scientists argued homosexualy was a sort of 'Darwian paradox' bee volved sexual behavur that was non-reproductive. Recent evince however suggts homosexual behavur uld play important rol reproductn and evolutn. In 2016, Savolaen started some work on animal homosexualy, begng wh a chapter on the Evolutn of Homosexualy.
In 1896, French entomologist Henri Ga Kerville published one of the first scientific illtratns of animal homosexualy. Female homosexualy has been well studied Japane maqu, but Clive's rearch would exame how homosexual behavur differs mal and across environments. Rerdg homosexual behavur the wild and llectg blood sampl are the first steps for Clive; the next is sequencg DNA to search for nnectns between the behavur and geic markers.
Beyond the 'gay gene'. What do animal homosexualy look like blogilly? In 1993 there was a media enzy over the disvery of the 'gay gene'.