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Contents:
- GAY GEE
- WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AS A GOOSE AND GAY AS A LARK
- GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020
- IS TOM CISE GAY? ROLLG STONE FOUNR REVEALS THE 'SUPER-SECRETIVE' REASON WHY HE THKS SO
GAY GEE
'In gee you may fd a very strong homosexual bond between two malegee who behave like a [matg] pair even though they nnot pulate. "There n be no moral objectn to homosexualy.
Many people, however, have an athetic, emotnal aversn to homosexual behavr. In an overpopulated world, would be a good thg if there were more homo-sexualy. A greylag goose upleBdiversy Herage Library via FlickrQue a few greylags, you see, are gay.
That said, plenty more are exclively homosexual om begng to rais the qutn: Why? That’s puzzled que a few scientists—those who study greylag gee and also the hundreds of other animal speci which homosexualy is, nfoundgly, found. Through a reproductive-succs lens, homosexualy would appear unterproductive, if not downright aberrant.
WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY
It’s certaly not aberrant, though, nsirg s to ame the qutn a b more scientifilly: Is homosexualy, the words of Kurt Kotrschal, a behavral blogist at the Universy of Vienna, “prerved bee there was some stabilizg selectn, or is an unavoidable product of bra velopment? ” Was homosexualy eful evolutn’s grand pageant—or jt somethg that popped up and stuck around?
Not even Kotrschal, who has studied greylag gee for s, workg at a rearch statn named for the late, great zoologist Konrad Lorenz, whose most famo studi volved the same himself nsired homosexualy eful. By that light, homosexualy serv to promote reproductn.
Other scientists have suggted that homosexual upl might perform some important social duty, such as helpg to raise other upl’ goslgs or guardg loni om predators. Perhaps homosexualy is the evable byproduct of emotnal systems that fuel mate pairg: You n’t have heterosexual love whout some overflow. Or, as homosexualy seems to occur more equently speci where parentg duti are ncentrated one sex, maybe homosexualy aris when one sex has more ee time.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GAY AS A GOOSE AND GAY AS A LARK
A harmls dulgence, then, which might also expla why homosexualy greylag gee seems to rrelate wh sex rats. Homosexualy would th be a byproduct of socialy and petn. Their applibily also vari: Homosexualy exists so many far-flung rners of the animal kgdom that likely didn’t origate a sgle mon anctor, but evolved aga and aga.
GAYT PLAC IN SOUTH CAROLA FOR 2020
”Homosexualy’s dynamics ed differ. Sometim, as wh greylag gee, homosexualy is only found one sex; other speci, cludg Canada gee, both mal and femal form same-sex unns.
)Cldia Wascher, a zoologist at Anglia Rk Universy, adds another nuance: If homosexualy is often adaptive, as she thks, ’s also not gog to be a straightforward tra hered by some fixed percentage of a populatn, wh equenci changg the simple manner of lor patterns or height. Rather, the potential for beg homosexual will vary om dividual to dividual, like cursy or boldns or any other personaly tra, and be shaped by the plex teractn of blogy wh social and environmental sexual proclivi of a speci, then, are nstantly unr evolutnary prsure. It might even be appropriate to discs homosexualy speci-wi generali.
“It uld be very siar wh homosexualy, ” Wascher says. One uld even image that certa environments cultivate homosexualy more or ls than others. Blogists n talk of k selectn and evolutnary strategi, but the birds themselv aren’t likely aware of those dynamics any more than we are choosg our matters for each goose isn’t evolutn but attractn—all the emotns and experienc that feed a special bond are themselv rooted blogil systems shared by heterosexual and homosexual dividuals alike.
IS TOM CISE GAY? ROLLG STONE FOUNR REVEALS THE 'SUPER-SECRETIVE' REASON WHY HE THKS SO
Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal. They're not alone: More than 130 bird speci are known to engage homosexual behavr at least ocsnally, a fact that has puzzled all, evolutnary terms same-sex matg seems to rce the birds' chanc of reproductive succs.
In some speci the same-sex pairs even raise young (nceived wh outsi partners, obvly) and stay together for several 2007, a team led by Geoff MacFarlane, a blogist at the Universy of Newstle Atralia, reported that male homosexual behavr was more mon polygyno bird speci, where mal mate wh numero femal, and that female homosexual behavr was more mon monogamo speci.
Srg sexTo fd out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavr, MacFarlane and his team exhstively bed the lerature for acunts of same-sex urtship, mountg, or pair bondg. They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild. For each speci, the team lculated the equency of homosexual behavr as well as both sex' ntributns to parentg.