Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay | Live Science

Contents:

• CAN A CHICKEN BE GAY
• CAN THERE BE GAY CHICKENS
• GAY CHICKEN
• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• IF 2 STRAIGHT GUYS N PLAY "GAY CHICKEN"
• EVO MORAL: CHICKEN HORMON WILL MAKE YOU GAY
• DID YOU EAT A GAY CHICKEN WEDNDAY?
• IF 2 STRAIGHT GUYS N PLAY "GAY CHICKEN"
• GAY CHICKEN ED MEANG

CAN A CHICKEN BE GAY

Do I have a gay chicken?

CAN THERE BE GAY CHICKENS

Y there gay so when they go they turn stra If 's the. Contue Learng about ZoologyCan a chicken be gay? The term "gay" only appli to humans, but homosexual behavr.

If you read this you are so gay and this don't give you the. My rooster me home today, he might be gay...

GAY CHICKEN

A first-ever mm display, "Agast Nature?, " which opened last month at the Universy of Oslo's Natural History Mm Norway, prents 51 speci of animals exhibg homosexualy. "Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 500 speci, and the phenomenon has been well scribed for 500 of them, " said Petter Bockman, project ordator of the ia, however, is rarely discsed the scientific muny and is often dismissed as unnatural bee don't appear to benef the larger e of speci ntuatn. Conversely, some argue that homosexual sex uld have a bigger natural e than jt pure ecstasy: namely evolutnary benefs.

In suatns when a speci is mostly bisexual, homosexual relatnships allow an animal to jo a pack. "In some bird speci that bond for life, homosexual pairs raise young. "Mom and Dad and Dad Almost a quarter of black swan fai are parented by homosexual upl.

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

"Homosexualy" and "heterosexualy" are terms fed by societal boundari, visible the animal kgdom. In one speci of gecko, femal clone most plex issu, animal homosexualy is challengg and poorly unrstood.

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IF 2 STRAIGHT GUYS N PLAY "GAY CHICKEN"

Chick-fil-A has a long history of supportg anti-gay anizatns. How n Chick-fil-A claim to be tly mted to their selective and hateful misreadg of the Biblil fn of marriage when the nearly 300 ln sandwich they sell yearly nta chickens, some or all of which might be gay? There are homosexual racons, too.

"Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy. A uple of weeks ago the private owner of Chick-Fil-A, one Dan Cathy, poted out that he is a stnch hold-out agast gay marriage.

It has been public knowledge for some time that some of the cha’s profs go to polil actn groups opposg gay marriage, and if you hadn’t heard that, then the fact that they aren’t open on Sundays should have been a red flag. They jo the lik of Rh Limbgh, Glenn Beck and Clarence Thomas their disgt wh my liberal tennci like supportg gay marriage. It was nearly a year later that I heard that Chick-Fil-A donated some of their funds to anti-gay activism.

EVO MORAL: CHICKEN HORMON WILL MAKE YOU GAY

On the other si you have gay rights supporters stagg “kiss-s” and gog on tiras agast the owner’s views to employe.

Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal. They're not alone: More than 130 bird speci are known to engage homosexual behavr at least ocsnally, a fact that has puzzled all, evolutnary terms same-sex matg seems to rce the birds' chanc of reproductive succs. In some speci the same-sex pairs even raise young (nceived wh outsi partners, obvly) and stay together for several 2007, a team led by Geoff MacFarlane, a blogist at the Universy of Newstle Atralia, reported that male homosexual behavr was more mon polygyno bird speci, where mal mate wh numero femal, and that female homosexual behavr was more mon monogamo speci.

DID YOU EAT A GAY CHICKEN WEDNDAY?

Srg sexTo fd out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavr, MacFarlane and his team exhstively bed the lerature for acunts of same-sex urtship, mountg, or pair bondg. They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild. For each speci, the team lculated the equency of homosexual behavr as well as both sex' ntributns to parentg.

Overall, homosexual behavr amounted to ls than 5 percent of all sexual activy the 93 speci, though some s was much higher. And sure enough, there was a strong rrelatn between a speci' matg system and s homosexual behavr.

The balance shifted to femal socially monogamo speci, where the sex spl the work more far, female homosexualy hasn't turned up the handful of birds where each female mat wh many mal, but MacFarlane's team predicts may. "Homosexual behavr is more likely to be mataed and not be selected agast than if you are a sex that r a lot for offsprg and only has one or few reproductive partners, " he wh plenty of reproductive prospects, a ltle homosexual behavr won't have much effect on long-term reproductive succs, MacFarlane said.

IF 2 STRAIGHT GUYS N PLAY "GAY CHICKEN"

"That's que different to what the tradnal argument is the lerature, where homosexual behavr is seen as a st. "In some s, homosexual allianc may even be adaptive, helpg dividuals fend terrori, advance their social stat, or get help wh parental re. then n a gay guy and a gay girl play "Straight Chicken"?

For the rerd I'm gay and i don't fd the ncept offensive myself (i fd very ltle offensive actually) but stead rather funny. then n a gay gay and a gay girl play "Straight Chicken"? What's a "gay gay" and what is this game you speak of?

GAY CHICKEN ED MEANG

The only part I don't see workg as well is them feelg a possible "prsure" of people around them thkg what they are dog is odd, although I'm not sure how big a part that is of Gay Chicken. Bis, two straight guys playg Gay Chicken is much funnier to watch. Hah my iend and I play gay chicken all the time.

Tryg to "gay" each other to unfortablens? I me here expectg a thread about gay chickens.