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.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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.
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
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.
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.