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

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• 80% OF GAY SWAN UPL SUCCSFULLY RAISE THEIR YOUNG, PARED TO 30% OF STRAIGHT SWAN UPL. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)
• GAY SWANS ARE EPLY LOVE AS THEY MAKE A NT AND EVEN HAVE LOVERS' QUARRELS
• WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO

80% OF GAY SWAN UPL SUCCSFULLY RAISE THEIR YOUNG, PARED TO 30% OF STRAIGHT SWAN UPL. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

80% of gay black swan upl succsfully raise their young, but only 30% of straight swan upl succsfully raise their young.

GAY SWANS ARE EPLY LOVE AS THEY MAKE A NT AND EVEN HAVE LOVERS' QUARRELS

Gay swans may even raise offsprg together as a uple. A full 80-percent of the gay upl succsfully fledge their young, pared wh 30 percent for straight upl. While may seem strange, there is actually que a lot of evince suggtg animals n be gay.

This would suggt that homosexualy, if were a blogil “tra”, animals would die out pretty quickly, bee all animals that were gay uld not have children. However, that hasn’t stopped many speci of animals om beg homosexual relatnships.

While most famo s are wh pengus, there have been s dolphs and even lns have been seen to have homosexual relatnships.

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

But as most of know, homosexualy is not necsarily a blogil tra. All male rams that exhibed signs of homosexualy had more nrons their hypothalam.

This is an tertg se, as this is the first study done that prents a possible rrelatn between homosexual tennci and bra stcture animals. So seems there may be a blogil explanatn for homosexual animal behavur after all.

Two male swans have ffled feathers at the world's only swannery after they set up a gay love nt happy uple at Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset are the only gay swans among more than 1, 000 birds at the are believed to be only the send male pair ever to hook up at the rerve. Homosexual behavur is universal across the animal kgdom, om whal to snails and even nemato worms.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO

Gay swans are eply love as they make a nt and even have lovers' quarrels. 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. "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.