Y, those cuddlg lns are male. But that don’t mean they’re gay. - The Washgton Post

gay male lions

The Into the Pri host may tame and shower wh Ai's fierct lns, but gay men n't keep their paws off him.

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GAY LNS? NOT QUE

Two male lns photographed humpg each other Botswana are not gay, but rather are jt showg each other some affectn, say ln experts. * gay male lions *

"[P]robably, they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly, " Mutua told Nairobi News, before suggtg that the lns be isolated and studied bee the "monic spirs flictg humans seem to have now ught up wh animals. ['Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Liftyl the Wild]"It's rare, 's not really sexual and tells a lot more about those officials Kenya and their homophobia than anythg else, " Craig Packer, the director of the Ln Rearch Center at the Universy of Mnota, told Live Science. The ter rejoiced when the gay wildlife esystem of bears, otters and giraff seemgly weled s newt addn: lns.

Gay lns.

THOSE GAY MALE LNS THAT WENT VIRAL WERE ACTUALLY JT SEXUALLY FLUID BROS

The untry's 'moral policeman' Ezekial Mutua says the animals mt have been spired by seeg gay men and should receive therapy * gay male lions *

Photographer Nile Cambré spotted the horny pair of ostensibly gay Simbas March Botswana. "It is the first time I have seen homosexual behavr lns, " she alas, reports have sce surfaced that are rag on the gay pri para. 'Cse gay lns, and lns live pris.

Another theory is that the lns hired Packer to sp this elaborate jtifitn to the prs, bee they're still stgglg wh issu related to toxic masculy and eply ternalized homophobia the ln muny, and jt n't brg themselv to adm that they love dick. That, hontly, mak their super gay humpg ssn that much hotter — 's #TotMasc!

This male-on-male behavr, seen this pair Botswana, is mon lns and is not proof of gay partnership the animals, a ln expert says. The Inter was buzzg this week wh tert over imag that appear to show two male lns engagg homosexual behavr.

GAY PRI? FAMO MALE LNS JT HUGGG

"I say isolate the crazy gay animals," said Ezekiel Mutua. * gay male lions *

But the "gay" lns are not gay. "You see that monkeys all the time, and don't make the newspapers that there are homosexual monkeys out there.

"The male-on-male behavr, Packer said, is fairly mon lns and many other speci, and should not be nsired proof of homosexual partnerships animals. [10 Gay Animals the Wild]Ln alnsAlthough the photos don't show animals breakg any barriers, the pictur are still wdows to an important, timate relatnship for lns, Packer said. Whether wild animals n be gay pends on how a person f that term.

KENYAN OFFICIAL SAYS MALE LNS WHO HAD SEX 'MT HAVE SEEN GAY MEN BEHAVG BADLY' AND SHOULD BE SEPARATED

"Probably they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly." * gay male lions *

It is the first time I have seen homosexual behavur lns but when readg about upon my return, is not that unmon. Wh the light jt around sunset, gave some spectacular Cambre documented the two male lns "matg" Cambre/Rex ShutterstockHomosexualy animals has long been discsed by experts. In 2012, the Yale Scientific published a piece sayg the prevalence of which may be "much more mon than prevly thought" and uld clu above 10 percent of speci around the the wild, male lns may exhib homosexual behavr to rerce bonds and allegiance.

“No speci has been found which homosexual behavr has not been shown to exist, wh the exceptn of speci that never have sex at all, such as sea urchs and aphis, " zoologist Petter Bøckman told The Guardian Liberty Voice.

For them, homosexualy is not an issue. For ee real time breakg news alerts sent straight to your box sign up to our breakg news emailsSign up to our ee breakg news emailsTwo lns spotted a gay sexual enunter mt have seen a homosexual uple "behavg badly" their park and should be separated and given unsellg, an official Kenya animals were photographed after one mounted the other a seclud bh area of the Masai Mara game rerve the south-wt of the Ain untry. He has the past banned "pro gay" movi and rtoons – bee he believed “glorifi” such spoke out over the two gay lns after seeg photos of the pair a rare display of such behavur ptured by wildlife photographer Pl told the Nairobi News: “We do not regulate animals, but this is a first and tertg to hear that there are two male lns love.

ARE THE 2 LNS GAY, QUEER OR SOMETHG ELSE ENTIRELY?

The 'moral policeman' wants to isolate the 'crazy gay animals' and wonrs whether human gays 'fluenced' them" name="scriptn * gay male lions *

”He add: “The animals need unsellg, bee probably they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly. ”Mr Mutua argued that homosexualy was ed by evil spirs and hted that the gay lns uld also have been posssed by the same source.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

”Gay sex between lns is rare but not unheard of and happens elsewhere the animal blogists claim same-sex relatns have been spotted 1, 500 different speci, and reliably rerd a third of the s – or roughly 450 speci. "Upon seeg the scen onle, many clared that the lns were gay lovers:On Monday, however, Natnal Geographic published a piece claimg that the lns are not gay, but rather that one is simply a female wh a mane. ”Meanwhile, the Post reports that homosexual behavr has been observed "upwards of 450 speci.

"Jt to look at that mountg behavr between lns and say ’s evince of homosexualy – if by homosexualy you mean that male ln prefers male partners – there’s no evince of that, ” Vasey told the Post. We didn't tch that exactly but we n not nfirm nor ny the veracy of such a be clear, there have also been reports of "gay lns.

Photographs and vios show a pair of gay lns havg sex. Jt saw The Gay Lns and my life will never be the same!!!!

IS THIS A PICTURE OF GAY LNS MATG?

Gay kg of the Jungle? What do all this say about the nature of homosexualy, cludg humans?

Y, THOSE CUDDLG LNS ARE MALE. BUT THAT DON’T MEAN THEY’RE GAY.

They showed two lns, both wh lh man, cuddlg at sunset the tall grass and mountg each other same-sex animal duos before them, the lns were quickly held up as symbols of the naturalns of homosexualy. “Gay pri!

GAY LNS SPOTTED HAVG SEX THE SAVANNAH: KENYAN OFFICIAL IS OUTRAGED

“Beg gay isn’t wrong. Cambré then bunked that by postg a vio to her webse that, she told The Washgton Post on Monday, showed that the blonr ln had also done some mountg and left no doubt that s anatomy was also very Cambre's viral photos and vios of two male lns Botswana cuddlg and mountg each other are beg ed by some as evince of homosexual behavr animals. Interpretg homosexual behavr animals, which has been observed upwards of 450 speci but is far om mon, remas tricky terrory for rearchers.

To be specific: Lns let out a “distctive yowlg noise” when they fish the ed, Packer said, and that didn’t happen Cambré’s do all this say about the nature of homosexualy, cludg humans? But that hasn’t stopped people om holdg up animals’ sexual behavr to make a pot about human sexualy, often wh polil two male pengus at New York’s Central Park Zoo paired up and raised a chick together more than a ago, gay rights activists embraced them as hero, and a children’s book, “And Tango Mak Three, ” was based on the pengus’ story. Some animals do form same-sex partnerships, and a lot more of them display homosexual behavr om time to time, said Pl Vasey, a psychology profsor at Canada’s Universy of Lethbridge who has long studied female Japane monkeys that mount each other durg matg those behavrs happen so sporadilly most speci that there is not enough data to build solid studi on — or draw nclns about whether any of those animals are actually “gay” — Vasey said.

KENYAN OFFICIAL WANTS "CRAZY GAY" LNS ISOLATED

Beg “exclively gay, so to speak…is exceptnally rare the animal kgdom.

“Jt to look at that mountg behavr between lns and say ’s evince of homosexualy — if by homosexualy you mean that male ln prefers male partners — there’s no evince of that, ” he more:. "The animals need unselg, bee probably they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly, " Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classifitn Board (KFCB), told Nairobi 's ments after pictur taken by U. Mutua is known as a moral csar Kenya and has banned televisn shows for purportedly promotg homosexualy and cricized lewd more: This map shows where 's illegal to be gay AiThe censor said that scientific rearch should be done to terme why the two male lns appeared to be matg.

"That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals, study their behavr bee is not normal.

TWO 'GAY LNS' FACE COUNSELLG KENYA FOLLOWG UNLIKELY LOVE STORY

"Homosexual behavr or same-sex relatns have been observed hundreds of different animal speci, though is almost entirely addn to—rather than exclively place of—heterosexual activy.

Scientists are reluctant to e anthropomorphic terms—such as "gay" or "lbian"—to scribe animals that engage same-sex activy, sce the motivatns for such activy are often unclear.

The femal would rear chicks after matg wh a male that was already a mted has waged a mpaign agast LGBT ntent Kenya, a nservative untry where homosexual relatns between men n lead to 14 years of recently banned the broadstg of Andi Mack, a Disney Channel show aimed at teenagers. Kenyan official wants "crazy gay" lns isolated. If our lns beg this homosexual behavur then that will surely be the end of the animal speci.

KENYAN OFFICIAL: HOMOSEXUAL LNS LEARNED IT FROM "COPYG" GAY TOURISTS"PROBABLY THEY HAVE BEEN FLUENCED BY GAYS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE NATNAL PARKS AND BEHAVED BADLY."{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}NEWSBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 6, 2017/8:26 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:574PX;WIDTH:1020PX;}GETTY IMAGBY DAN AVERYNOVEMBER 6, 2017 / 8:26 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"KENYAN OFFICIAL: HOMOSEXUAL LNS LEARNED IT FROM \"COPYG\" GAY TOURISTS","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2017-11-06T13:26:14.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2017-11-06T13:26:14.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"DAN AVERY","ARTICLESECTN":"NEWS"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AFTER WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER REPORTED SEEG TWO MALE LNS MATE A KENYAN SAFARI, A ERNMENT OFFICIAL CLAIMED THE TWO FEL MT HAVE "PIED" GAY MEN VISG THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"PROBABLY THEY HAVE BEEN FLUENCED BY GAYS WHO HAVE GONE TO THE NATNAL PARKS AND BEHAVED BADLY," TWEETED EZEKEIL MUTUA, HEAD OF THE KENYAN FILM CLASSIFITN BOARD. 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HE ALSO SUGGTED THEY BE STUDIED, IF ONLY TO NFIRM THEY WERE BOTH ED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}"I MEAN, WHERE ON EARTH HAVE YOU EVER HEARD SOMETHG LIKE THIS HAPPENG. THE MONIC SPIRS FLICTG HUMANS SEEMS TO HAVE NOW UGHT UP WH THE ANIMALS," MUTUA ADD. 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The spectacle of two wild male lns such timacy was also observed Botswana last year and has sometim been terpreted as homosexual behavr, though ln experts say is a relatively unmon form of bondg or social Goldste, the photographer who ptured the imag Kenya's Maasai Mara rerve Augt, said many other speci are known to engage such behavr and that, for example, he had seen giraff dog .

"The animals need unsellg, bee probably they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly, " said Mutua. "That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals.

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Kenya "crazy gay" lns should be isolated for rearch, Ezekial Mutua, chief executive of Kenya Film Classifitn Board says - CBS News .

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