Contents:
- HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
Asked by: Jack England, DorchterHomosexual behavur has been observed at least 1, 500 different animal speci. In fact, no speci has actually been monstrated to show no cince of homosexual behavur at all, apart om those that don't actually have sex.
*Note: We tentnally do not e terms such as “heterosexual” or “homosexual” to prevent any nflatn between human sexualy and nonhuman animal sexual behavrs. The last remag py was recently unearthed providg valuable sights to animal homosexualy rearch. 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. 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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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. Scientists argued homosexualy was a sort of 'Darwian paradox' bee volved sexual behavur that was non-reproductive.
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
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. This ia stemmed om a study showg a rrelatn between geic marker Xq28 and male homosexualy, although there were statistil uncertati about some of the fdgs.