Homosexualy is blogil, suggts gay sheep study | New Scientist

Contents:

• HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY
• GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT
• ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference. But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal. The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men.

GAY SHEEP? LET'S GET THE FACTS STRAIGHT

Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc. As many as one 10 rams n be gay.

ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy.

This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals. "The hope is that the study of the bra differenc will provi clu to the procs volved the velopment and regulatn of heterosexual, as well as homosexual, behavr.