Contents:
- MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
- CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
- BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch. To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said.
Homosexual behavur appears to be wispread among male maque monkeys the wild and the tra may be at least partially passed down gen om father to son. Savolaen has often qutned a popular belief known as the “Darwian paradox of homosexualy”, which impli that bee homosexual behavur don’t lead to reproductn, has no benef and any gen that promote should be elimated by natural selectn. To vtigate homosexualy other primat, Savolaen and his lleagu cid to study a lony of 1700 wild rh maqu (Ma mulatta) on the Puerto Rin island of Cayo Santiago.
“I am hopeful that we really are startg to move away om the antiquated ia that [homosexualy] animals is an evolutnary paradox or aberratn. Any attempt at unrstandg human homosexualy mt also clu a thorough analysis of same-sex sexual behavur the other primat.
CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
In this chapter I firstly nsir homosexual behavur as appli to the non-human primat. This parative approach may help to better unrstand those aspects of human homosexualy that are unique and those that are shared wh our clost livg relativ.
All the speci, however, may be assigned to one of six major groupgs or superfai of the Orr Primat: the lemurs of Madagasr (Lemuroia), the galagos and loris of Ai and Asia (Lorisoia), the tarsiers of SE Asia (Tarsia), New World monkeys (Ceboia), Old World monkeys (Cerpheia) and the ap and humans (Homoia).
Gee Gaylord Simpson (1945) divid the Orr Primat to two suborrs: the Prosimii (lemurs, loris, galagos and tarsiers) and the Anthropoia (monkeys, ap and humans). Homosexual behavr is not limed to humans.
BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
Blogists have reported homosexual behavr many speci of wild animal, rangg om bats and birds to dolphs and primat.
GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
When animals engage homosexual behavr, one might assume that they vt ls time and energy on reproductn. So rais the qutn of how homosexual behavr manag to evolve and ntue to exist wh a populatn.
The unrlyg prumptn is that there is not only a st associated wh engagg homosexual activy, but also that variatn such behavr is passed down om one generatn to the next. The cultural stigma surroundg homosexualy, for stance, uld lead to the unrreportg of homosexual activy. Our rults may help to challenge the beliefs and bat prejudice agast homosexualy and bisexualy.
The last remag py was recently unearthed providg valuable sights to animal homosexualy rearch. But forays to animal homosexualy rearch long predate Levick, wh observatns published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s.