Lbian Albatross and Gay Giraff? The Science on Same-Sex Sexualy Animals | Audubon

Contents:

• BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)
• GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
• LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• GAY BONOBOS MEME GENERATOR

BEG GAY IS NATURAL: JT ASK BONOBOS (OP-ED)

In a survey by our Homoid Psychology Rearch Group survey, only 15 percent of people who had the hight level of tn (universy) knew that bonobos are great ap. But the bate over whether gay marriage, or any other non-reproductive sexual relatnship, is "natural, " no other animal holds more importance.

Unlike chimps, bonobos are naturally bisexual—and happily engage homosexual acts for enjoyment, to solve nflicts, and to get ahead the tribe. One of the big arguments put forward agast homosexualy is that ’s unnatural, a viatn of the human md.

Acrdg to Natnal Geographic, around 75 percent of bonobo sex is non-reproductive—and that clus an enormo amount of homosexual uplgs. Now, jt bee bonobos are remarkably progrsive where homosexualy is ncerned don’t mean their behavr translat to humans. (Image cred: © Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN)Homosexualy has been documented more than 450 speci of vertebrat signalg that sexual preference is blogilly termed animals.

GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD

)Homosexualy has been documented almost 500 speci of animals, signalg that sexual preference is pretermed. Mal also take to homosexual play but tend to leave their partner soon after, makg what we ll the human world a one night stand. (Image cred: © Chris Johnson – earthOCEAN)Homosexual activy occurs wh about the same equency as heterosexual play amongst the mare mammals.

Male bottlenose dolphs are generally bisexual, but they go through perds of beg exclively homosexual. The homosexual activi of the mammals clu oral sex durg which time one dolph stimulat the other wh s snout.

LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS

[See more pictur of dolphs]BisonHomosexual mountg between mal tends to be more mon than heterosexual female-male pulatn among Amerin bison, pecially bee femal only mate wh the bulls about once a year. Homosexual mountg enpass almost 9 percent of all sexual activi wh the hoofed mammals the wild.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

(Image cred: Geoff Shter)Splashg around the water is brought to a pletely new level gray whal, where homosexual teractns are que mon. (Image cred: worldswildlifewonrs | Shutterstock)Mal of this stunng perchg bird light homosexualy.

Almost 40 percent of the male populatn engag a form of homosexual activy and a small percentage don't ever pulate wh femal. 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.

GAY BONOBOS MEME GENERATOR

"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.

"To learn more, see LiveScience's Top 10 prentatn, Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the Really Wild StoriSpir Cri Out While MatgThe Paful Reali of Hyena SexSalmon of Small Stature Endowed wh Matg AdvantageWell-fed Crickets Seek Sex Incsantly, Die YoungMystery of Empty Chicken Sex SolvedSmart Bats Have Smaller Tticl. " a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals. Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i.