Contents:
- MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
- CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
MAQUE MONKEYS FREQUENTLY HAVE GAY SEX
Homosexual behavur appears to be wispread among male maque monkeys the wild and the tra may be at least partially passed down gen om father to son. Savolaen has often qutned a popular belief known as the “Darwian paradox of homosexualy”, which impli that bee homosexual behavur don’t lead to reproductn, has no benef and any gen that promote should be elimated by natural selectn.
To vtigate homosexualy other primat, Savolaen and his lleagu cid to study a lony of 1700 wild rh maqu (Ma mulatta) on the Puerto Rin island of Cayo Santiago.
“I am hopeful that we really are startg to move away om the antiquated ia that [homosexualy] animals is an evolutnary paradox or aberratn. "Unfortunately, there is still a belief amongst some people that same-sex behavr is 'unnatural, ' and some untri sadly still enforce the ath penalty for homosexualy, " Savolaen said the statement.
CAN MONKEYS BE GAY? WHAT HOMOSEXUAL BEHAVR PRIMAT CAN TELL US ABOUT THE EVOLUTN OF HUMAN SEXUALY
Those that voice opposn to acceptance of homosexualy on relig grounds often nsir homosexualy to be “unnatural. ” However, homosexual behavr is wispread across the animal kgdom. In addn to well-known exampl such as mammals and birds, homosexual behavrs occur reptil, amphibians, fish, and vertebrat.
Among the primate orr, homosexual behavr is most equently observed bonobos. Recent observatns of homosexual behavr male spir monkeys adds to our knowledge of the behavrs and may help answer qutns about the evolutnary functns homosexual behavrs may play, as well as allow to nsir if other animals have sexual orientatns siar to the inti that humans nstct.
From April-December 2014, Lra Bia and lleagu observed three separate stanc of homosexual behavr between male spir monkeys. Although is difficult to draw nclns om such few observatns, Bia and lleagu nsir how the behavrs f wh two petg hypoth for homosexual behavr: the 1) regulatn of social relatnships hypothis and 2) the tensn-regulatn hypothis. Such hypoth, rived om rearch on baboons and bonobos, suggt that homosexual behavrs may eher be a means of strengtheng allianc or fg a tense suatn.