Gay animals out of the closet?

Contents:

• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

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.

Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs. Contrary to this le of thought, however, more recent terpretatns have qutned whether the paradox of animal ‘homosexualy’ is really a paradox at all. Regardls of what your sixth gra relign teacher may have said, homosexual activy is natural and the overwhelmg majory of animals are queer.

In fact, female and male bonobos engage homosexual behavr to cement social bonds, velop relatnships wh more domant group members and climb the social ladr. “There’s a whole range of behavrs that f well wh how evolutn happens that now clu homosexual behavr, ” says Marlene Z of the Universy of Mnota Sat Pl. 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. 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.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

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.

From the middle of October until next summer the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo will host the first exhibn that foc on homosexualy the animal kgdom. Homosexualy is both mon and highly sential the liv of a number of speci, " explas Petter Boeckman, who is the amic advisor for the "Agast Nature's Orr?

HOW DO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE GAY/HOMOSEXUAL ANIMALS IMPACT THE IA THAT HOMOSEXUALY IS A S?

Among some animals homosexual behavur is rare, some havg sex wh the same genr only a part of their life, while other animals, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, homosexualy is practiced throughout their liv. Related StoriRearchers monstrate improved culture of primate duced pluripotent stem cellsConsonant-like lls om orangutans provi clu to the origs of human spoken languageMache learng tools help unravel why human accelerated regns evolved so quicklyAnimals that live a pletely homosexual life n also be found.

Ined, there is a number of animals which homosexual behavur has never been observed, such as many sects, passere birds and small mammals. "To turn the approach on s head: No speci has been found which homosexual behavur has not been shown to exist, wh the exceptn of speci that never have sex at all, such as sea urchs and aphis. The problem is that rearchers have not seen for themselv that the phenomenon exists or they have been nfed when observg homosexual behavur or that they are fearful of beg ridiculed by their lleagu.

Simply put, the fact that there are animals that exhib what we might ll homosexual behavr do not change the fact that homosexualy is a s for human begs. Anyone engaged the most elementary animal observatn is forced to nclu that animal “homosexualy, ” “filici” and “nnibalism” are exceptns to normal animal behavr.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

7 Like bonobos, other animals will mount another of the same sex and engage seemgly “homosexual” behavr, although their motivatn may differ. Although homosexual behavr is very mon the animal world, seems to be very unmon that dividual animals have a long-lastg predisposn to engage such behavr to the excln of heterosexual activi.

GAY ANIMALS OUT OF THE CLOSET?

Even blogist Bce Bagemihl, whose book Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy was ced by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn their amici curiae brief Lawrence v. Simon LeVay entertas the hope that the unrstandg of animal “homosexualy” will help change societal mor and relig beliefs about homosexualy.

He stat: It seems possible that the study of sexual behavr animals, pecially non-human primat, will ntribute to the liberalizatn of relig attus toward homosexual activy and other forms of nonprocreative sex. Specifilly, the studi challenge one particular sense of the dogma that homosexual behavr is “agast nature”: the notn that is unique to those creatur who, by tastg the u of the tree of knowledge, have alone bee morally culpable.

That blueprt, as bethicist Bto Maria Bti not, mt be sought man himself: It is a equent error for people to ntrast human and animal behavrs, as if the two were homogeno. To Wtern science, homosexualy (both animal and human) is an anomaly, an unexpected behavr that above all requir some sort of “explanatn” or “e” or “ratnale.