Can animals be gay? Pengus, flamgos and whal thk so

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO
GAY FLAMGO UPLE BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL
GAY FLAMGOS BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL
GAY FLAMGO UPLE LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP READY TO ACT AS SURROGATE PARENTS, SAYS DENVER ZOO
GAY FLAMGOS ADOPT ABANDONED CHICK
GAY FLAMGO COUPLE BREAKS UP DURG PRI MONTH
LANCE BASS AND FREDDIE MERCURY, ARE A GAY MIXED-SPECI FLAMGO COUPLE AT THE DENVER ZOO: WATCH
5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY? PENGUS, FLAMGOS AND WHAL THK SO
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Lra Barton on the pair of gay flamgos named Carlos and Fernando. * flamingos are gay *

In the idyllic settg of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Tst Slimbridge, 325 hectar of Glouctershire wetland alive wh water vol and dragonfli and the world's largt llectn of swans, gee, and ducks, live a pair of gay flamgos named Carlos and Fernando. This week, the pair were given the rponsibily of raisg a newly hatched flamgo that has been rejected by s qutn of whether animals n be homosexual has been extensively explored. In 1999, Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy, the rult of 10 years of rearch by Bce Bagemihl, documented many s of homosexual behavur animals.

GAY FLAMGO UPLE BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL

* flamingos are gay *

Last year, an exhibn at the Universy of Oslo's Natural History Mm showed 51 exampl of animals displayg homosexual behavur - om female bonobos that b their genals together to male killer whal ridg the dorsal fs of other the avian world, nearly a quarter of black swan fai are parented by homosexual upl, the mal sometim matg wh a female simply to have a chick. Homosexualy flamgos is also relatively mon.

GAY FLAMGOS BREAK UP DURG PRI MONTH AND MAYBE LOVE ISN’T REAL AFTER ALL

Readg: Gay flamgos break up durg Pri Month and maybe love isn't real after all * flamingos are gay *

In the se of Carlos and Fernando, both assume the male rol durg the urtship rual - preeng, stttg and wavg their heads vigoroly om si to are other famo gay animal pairgs.

Central Park zoo Manhattan had a famo pair of gay chstrap pengus named Roy and Silo, who were separable for more than six years. Songwrer Cole, who first h big the 1920s, wouldn't risk paradg his homosexualy public.

GAY FLAMGO UPLE LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP READY TO ACT AS SURROGATE PARENTS, SAYS DENVER ZOO

A pair of gay flamgos have bee foster parents after takg an abandoned chick unr their wgs. * flamingos are gay *

Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now. Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game.

GAY FLAMGOS ADOPT ABANDONED CHICK

A gay flamgo uple at the Denver Zoo broke up durg Pri Month and are now ee to 'flamgle' wh whomever they please. * flamingos are gay *

"The homosexual behavr that go on is pletely bafflg and trigug, " says Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer rrponnt, Mireya Mayor. "Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs.

He believ bonobos e sex to rolve nflicts between animals appear to go through a homosexual phase before they bee fully mature. The fact that homosexualy do, after all, exist the natural world is bound to be ed agast people who sist such behavr is the U.

GAY FLAMGO COUPLE BREAKS UP DURG PRI MONTH

Lance Bass and Freddie Mercury, a gay, mixed-speci flamgo uple at the Denver zoo, is beg celebrated this Pri month. They have been together sce * flamingos are gay *

Many on the relig right regard homosexualy as a s.

And only this month, Print Bh vowed to ntue his bid to ban gay marriag after the Senate blocked the proposal. Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society. For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy?

"The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare. "For stance, the Spartans, ancient Greece, enuraged homosexualy among their ele troops.

LANCE BASS AND FREDDIE MERCURY, ARE A GAY MIXED-SPECI FLAMGO COUPLE AT THE DENVER ZOO: WATCH

The Baltimore Flamgos, Maryland's first gay gby team, make clivy their game. The team clus players who intify as gay and trans, and no gby experience is required. * flamingos are gay *

Another suggtn is that homosexualy is a velopmental phase people go through. "But he adds that homosexualy don't necsarily have to have a functn. However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

An abandoned baby flamgo was taken unr the wg by a pair of two gay flamgos at the Whipsna Zoo Bedfordshire, egg was kept an cubator after was neglected by s blogil parents, and zookeepers sought foster parents before cid that male flamgos, Hudson and Blaze, were the bt sued for the job. Bird team lear, Tim Savage explaed how gay flamgos are not unual. Denver Zoo has nfirmed that gay flamgo uple Lance Bass and Freddie Mercury have broken up.