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CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
From the middle of October until next summer the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo will host the first exhibn that foc on homosexualy the animal kgdom. Homosexualy is both mon and highly sential the liv of a number of speci, " explas Petter Boeckman, who is the amic advisor for the "Agast Nature's Orr? Among some animals homosexual behavur is rare, some havg sex wh the same genr only a part of their life, while other animals, such as the dwarf chimpanzee, homosexualy is practiced throughout their liv.
Related StoriRearchers monstrate improved culture of primate duced pluripotent stem cellsMache learng tools help unravel why human accelerated regns evolved so quicklyConsonant-like lls om orangutans provi clu to the origs of human spoken languageAnimals that live a pletely homosexual life n also be found. "If a female has sex wh a male one time, but thoands of tim wh another female, is she bisexual or homosexual?
Ined, there is a number of animals which homosexual behavur has never been observed, such as many sects, passere birds and small mammals.
HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
"To turn the approach on s head: No speci has been found which homosexual behavur has not been shown to exist, wh the exceptn of speci that never have sex at all, such as sea urchs and aphis. The problem is that rearchers have not seen for themselv that the phenomenon exists or they have been nfed when observg homosexual behavur or that they are fearful of beg ridiculed by their lleagu.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
The qutn of whether animals n be gay is one that has long fascated and ed nsternatn to scientists and laypeople alike. Neverthels, the topic of same-sex behavur animals, and how such behavurs may have e to evolve is a fascatg the terms ‘gay’ and ‘heterosexual’ shouldn't really be applied to animalsDpe s e our tle, terms like 'gay' or 'heterosexual’ may not be the bt to e when scribg sexual behavurs animals. Bee of this, animal ‘homosexualy’ has often been ignored, or else scientists have enavoured to fd var adaptive benefs to expla s of the adaptive explanatns clu var hypothised social benefs.
Contrary to this le of thought, however, more recent terpretatns have qutned whether the paradox of animal ‘homosexualy’ is really a paradox at all. Every sgle tegory wh the animal kgdom featur speci who regularly exhib homosexual behavr: vertebrat and vertebrat; amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptil; even sects! While data don’t suggt that maqu rema exclively homosexual, do show that the monkey opts for the alternative relatnships out of pure hedonism.
Giraff have been rerd to have more equent homosexual teractns between two mal than reproductive, heterosexual uplg. Scientists have lots of proof of the Amerin bottlenose dolph engagg homosexual behavr both sex, femal phg their beak to another’s genal sl and mal pulatg wh each other. There has even been rerd stanc of cross-speci homosexual pairgs, between male Amerin bottlenose dolphs and male Atlantic spotted dolphs.