Contents:
- WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX
- ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY
- BILLNS OF SECTS ARE HAVG GAY SEX 'ACCINTALLY' SAY SCIENTISTS
WHY INSECTS HAVE GAY SEX
Many speci of sects and spirs engage homosexual behavr, like urtg, mountg, and tryg to mate wh members of the same sex. Oliver Mart of ETH Zurich have found that homosexual behavr bugs is probably accintal most s.
In birds and mammals, homosexual behavr has been shown to have evolutnary benefs. In general there is no clear benef to homosexual behavr sects.
ARE BUGS GAY? SPIRS AND INSECTS ENGAGE IN ACCINTAL HOMOSEXUALY
Homosexual matg is at least as risky as the heterosexual kd, expendg sperm, wastg time that uld go toward other activi, and boostg the risk of jury, disease, and predatn.
They expect homosexual behavr to be siarly stly.
And yet, some speci, up to 85 percent of mal engage homosexual behavr. Almost 80 percent of the s of homosexual behavr the rearchers appeared to be the rult of misintifitn or belated intifitn of genr. This explanatn is supported by the fact that many speci that exhib homosexual behavr also mate wh related speci or animate objects, like beer bottl—ditg a general tenncy toward misintifitn.
BILLNS OF SECTS ARE HAVG GAY SEX 'ACCINTALLY' SAY SCIENTISTS
"Homosexual behavr may be genomilly lked to beg more active, a better forager, or a better petor, " says Dr.
To nfirm their theory, the rearchers plan to study the ndns that make homosexual behavr more or ls likely bugs. They also want to look more eply to male ristance to homosexual matg. Rearch fds that homosexualy sects and spirs is a se of mistaken inty (2013, October 21).
Male sects generally have gay sex by mistake: they n't tell the difference between a male and female until the act is done.