Contents:
- LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
- ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?
- 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
“People always e up wh the argument that homosexualy is somehow agast nature. " a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals. Scientists have observed homosexual behavr hundreds of animal speci, om sects to sheep.
Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i. Homosexualy is most wispread among animals wh a plex herd life.
Homosexualy also plays a social role among other male animals, such as big horn sheep and lns. But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci. “This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’?
ARE 90% OF GIRAFF GAY – OR HAVE THEIR LOVG LOOKS BEEN MISUNRSTOOD?
Photograph: Buck Forter/Getty ImagShortcutsDawn Butler’s claims regardg animal sexualy have been lled ‘offensive’ and ‘homophobic’ by one of Jeremy Corbyn’s advisers. “Nety per cent of giraff are gay, ” Dawn Butler, the shadow secretary for women and equali, told a PkNews awards event earlier this month.
5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
”Butler’s words were meant as praise for the school curriculum, which teach children that is normal for people to be gay. However, Jeremy Corbyn’s senr domtic policy adviser, Lachlan Stuart, rpond angrily on Twter over what he felt also meant about gay people. “It is a ludicro, offensive, homophobic claim, ” Stuart said, sistg stead that the same-sex physil ntact observed between giraff the wild is “not gay behavur” at all, but a display of domance.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
“While I totally agree wh Dawn Butler’s ment that we should accept people for who they are, she is rrect her ment that giraff are gay, ” Fennsy says.
”Even so, is probably a mistake to ll any giraff “gay”. For monkeys, homosexualy is a natural law.
Homosexual relatnships the animal world are not que a new thg. However, for giraff, you will be surprised to learn that 94% of male giraff are homosexual. There are hundreds of lns of gay people our society.