Celebry gay animal upl are often the news. We asked zookeepers what ’s like to be rponsible for the animal world civil-sex partnerships—and what you do when they break up.
Contents:
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
- GAY ANIMALS
- ZOOKEEPERS EXPLA WHAT IT'S LIKE TO RAISE CELEBRY GAY ANIMAL COUPL
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
Gay animals imply homosexualy is natural * gay animals that mate for life *
Are there homosexual animals? Homosexual 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.
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.
MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
"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. "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. "I've had primatologists offer to give me their data on homosexual behavr bee they didn't want to publish , " Wolfe said.
" was set up partly to mystify the argument that a homosexual way of livg nnot be accepted bee is agast the "laws of nature" n now be rejected scientifilly, said Geir Soli, project lear for the exhibn.
GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
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Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong.
It’s been observed more than 1, 500 animal speci, om sects and other vertebrat, right up the evolutnary ladr to primat and the most part, we’re not sure why—what evolutnary advantage do homosexual uplg provi to dolphs (other than happier dolphs)? What’s really unnatural is that so many people still assume animals adhere to the “moral” of a small number of humans—so if you happen to n to anyone like that, pot them to this list of the 11 most gay animals on Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)Bonobos, a speci of great ap native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the hippi of the animal kgdom.
GAY ANIMALS
They share about 99% of their DNA wh humans, and they’re gay as hell. Homosexual sex has been observed a number of dolph speci, but has been studied most thoroughly bottlenose dolphs.
Photo: JMx Imag (Shutterstock)Giraffe sex is more gay than straight. In parison, female giraff only get by wh other femal about 1% of the Jaroslav Seker (Shutterstock)Both male and female lns have been observed exhibg homosexual behavr.
ZOOKEEPERS EXPLA WHAT IT'S LIKE TO RAISE CELEBRY GAY ANIMAL COUPL
The olst evince of a (maybe) gay man dat back to 2900 to 2500 years ago. Sce funerary practic were so important to the ancient people, probably wasn’t an accint, and scientists speculate that uld have been bee he was gay or trans.
” Garter snak, gopher snak, and rattlnak all exhib “queer” behavr of var typ, but the gayt of all are flower pot snak, all of whom are female. However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans. New work by evolutnary blogists suggts that perhaps, bld by historil homophobia, we have been askg the wrong qutn all along.
In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent.