Y, those cuddlg lns are male. But that don’t mean they’re gay. - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY LNS? NOT QUE
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
• THOSE GAY MALE LNS THAT WENT VIRAL WERE ACTUALLY JT SEXUALLY FLUID BROS
• ARE THE 2 LNS GAY, QUEER OR SOMETHG ELSE ENTIRELY?
• TWO MALE LNS SEEN GAY SEXUAL ENUNTER KENYAN NATNAL PARK
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• GAY PRI? FAMO MALE LNS JT HUGGG
• GAY LNS SPOTTED HAVG SEX THE SAVANNAH: KENYAN OFFICIAL IS OUTRAGED
• IS MY PET GAY?
• IS THIS A PICTURE OF GAY LNS MATG?
• Y, THOSE CUDDLG LNS ARE MALE. BUT THAT DON’T MEAN THEY’RE GAY.
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE GAY?
• CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
• MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

GAY LNS? NOT QUE

"[P]robably, they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly, " Mutua told Nairobi News, before suggtg that the lns be isolated and studied bee the "monic spirs flictg humans seem to have now ught up wh animals.

['Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Liftyl the Wild]"It's rare, 's not really sexual and tells a lot more about those officials Kenya and their homophobia than anythg else, " Craig Packer, the director of the Ln Rearch Center at the Universy of Mnota, told Live Science. Asked by: Jack England, DorchterHomosexual behavur has been observed at least 1, 500 different animal speci. In fact, no speci has actually been monstrated to show no cince of homosexual behavur at all, apart om those that don't actually have sex.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

The ter rejoiced when the gay wildlife esystem of bears, otters and giraff seemgly weled s newt addn: lns. Gay lns.

THOSE GAY MALE LNS THAT WENT VIRAL WERE ACTUALLY JT SEXUALLY FLUID BROS

Photographer Nile Cambré spotted the horny pair of ostensibly gay Simbas March Botswana. "It is the first time I have seen homosexual behavr lns, " she alas, reports have sce surfaced that are rag on the gay pri para. 'Cse gay lns, and lns live pris.

Another theory is that the lns hired Packer to sp this elaborate jtifitn to the prs, bee they're still stgglg wh issu related to toxic masculy and eply ternalized homophobia the ln muny, and jt n't brg themselv to adm that they love dick. That, hontly, mak their super gay humpg ssn that much hotter — 's #TotMasc!

ARE THE 2 LNS GAY, QUEER OR SOMETHG ELSE ENTIRELY?

"Upon seeg the scen onle, many clared that the lns were gay lovers:On Monday, however, Natnal Geographic published a piece claimg that the lns are not gay, but rather that one is simply a female wh a mane. ”Meanwhile, the Post reports that homosexual behavr has been observed "upwards of 450 speci. "Jt to look at that mountg behavr between lns and say ’s evince of homosexualy – if by homosexualy you mean that male ln prefers male partners – there’s no evince of that, ” Vasey told the Post.

TWO MALE LNS SEEN GAY SEXUAL ENUNTER KENYAN NATNAL PARK

”Homosexual relatnships are not unheard of among animals (Cover Imag/Pl Goldste)Although this is a rare occurrence between male lns, is not unheard of. Some blogists claim gay animal behavur has been spotted 1, 500 different speci, and reliably rerd a third of the s - roughly 450 speci. The qutn of whether animals n be gay is one that has long fascated and ed nsternatn to scientists and laypeople alike.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

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.

GAY PRI? FAMO MALE LNS JT HUGGG

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. *Note: We tentnally do not e terms such as “heterosexual” or “homosexual” to prevent any nflatn between human sexualy and nonhuman animal sexual behavrs. This male-on-male behavr, seen this pair Botswana, is mon lns and is not proof of gay partnership the animals, a ln expert says.

The Inter was buzzg this week wh tert over imag that appear to show two male lns engagg homosexual behavr. But the "gay" lns are not gay. "You see that monkeys all the time, and don't make the newspapers that there are homosexual monkeys out there.

GAY LNS SPOTTED HAVG SEX THE SAVANNAH: KENYAN OFFICIAL IS OUTRAGED

"The male-on-male behavr, Packer said, is fairly mon lns and many other speci, and should not be nsired proof of homosexual partnerships animals. [10 Gay Animals the Wild]Ln alnsAlthough the photos don't show animals breakg any barriers, the pictur are still wdows to an important, timate relatnship for lns, Packer said.

Whether wild animals n be gay pends on how a person f that term. "The animals need unselg, bee probably they have been fluenced by gays who have gone to the natnal parks and behaved badly, " Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classifitn Board (KFCB), told Nairobi 's ments after pictur taken by U. Mutua is known as a moral csar Kenya and has banned televisn shows for purportedly promotg homosexualy and cricized lewd more: This map shows where 's illegal to be gay AiThe censor said that scientific rearch should be done to terme why the two male lns appeared to be matg.

IS MY PET GAY?

"That is why I will say isolate the crazy gay animals, study their behavr bee is not normal. "Homosexual behavr or same-sex relatns have been observed hundreds of different animal speci, though is almost entirely addn to—rather than exclively place of—heterosexual activy.

Scientists are reluctant to e anthropomorphic terms—such as "gay" or "lbian"—to scribe animals that engage same-sex activy, sce the motivatns for such activy are often unclear.

The femal would rear chicks after matg wh a male that was already a mted has waged a mpaign agast LGBT ntent Kenya, a nservative untry where homosexual relatns between men n lead to 14 years of recently banned the broadstg of Andi Mack, a Disney Channel show aimed at teenagers.

IS THIS A PICTURE OF GAY LNS MATG?

If you've ever had a pet, you may have wonred if your dog or t n be gay. However, when you look at the animal kgdom as a whole, pecially those crters who are ee to roam around whout the nf of a human home, the ia of dogs and ts exhibg homosexual behavr is somethg that serv closer attentn. But before we n terme whether pets n be gay, we first need to set the basele for what is nsired "gay" the animal kgdom.

Gay human begs are fed as beg sexually attracted to people of the same sex.

Can dogs be gay? Can ts be gay?

Y, THOSE CUDDLG LNS ARE MALE. BUT THAT DON’T MEAN THEY’RE GAY.

While there's been much speculatn, there's no scientific evince of var animals, pecially hoe pets, beg gay or not. He ntu to say that beg exclively gay is "exceptnally rare" the animal kgdom.

So, if you're cur if your dog or t is gay, know that there is currently no evince to support this notn at least terms that humans are ed to fg homosexualy. Scientists often study two thgs when tryg to terme whether animals n be gay: exclivy and longevy. Photographs and vios show a pair of gay lns havg sex.

Jt saw The Gay Lns and my life will never be the same!!!!

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Gay kg of the Jungle? What do all this say about the nature of homosexualy, cludg humans?

They showed two lns, both wh lh man, cuddlg at sunset the tall grass and mountg each other same-sex animal duos before them, the lns were quickly held up as symbols of the naturalns of homosexualy. “Gay pri! “Beg gay isn’t wrong.

Cambré then bunked that by postg a vio to her webse that, she told The Washgton Post on Monday, showed that the blonr ln had also done some mountg and left no doubt that s anatomy was also very Cambre's viral photos and vios of two male lns Botswana cuddlg and mountg each other are beg ed by some as evince of homosexual behavr animals. Interpretg homosexual behavr animals, which has been observed upwards of 450 speci but is far om mon, remas tricky terrory for rearchers.

CAN ANIMALS REALLY BE GAY?

To be specific: Lns let out a “distctive yowlg noise” when they fish the ed, Packer said, and that didn’t happen Cambré’s do all this say about the nature of homosexualy, cludg humans?

But that hasn’t stopped people om holdg up animals’ sexual behavr to make a pot about human sexualy, often wh polil two male pengus at New York’s Central Park Zoo paired up and raised a chick together more than a ago, gay rights activists embraced them as hero, and a children’s book, “And Tango Mak Three, ” was based on the pengus’ story. Some animals do form same-sex partnerships, and a lot more of them display homosexual behavr om time to time, said Pl Vasey, a psychology profsor at Canada’s Universy of Lethbridge who has long studied female Japane monkeys that mount each other durg matg those behavrs happen so sporadilly most speci that there is not enough data to build solid studi on — or draw nclns about whether any of those animals are actually “gay” — Vasey said.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Beg “exclively gay, so to speak…is exceptnally rare the animal kgdom. “Jt to look at that mountg behavr between lns and say ’s evince of homosexualy — if by homosexualy you mean that male ln prefers male partners — there’s no evince of that, ” he more:. Wh most speci, homosexual sex has been documented only sporadilly, and there appear to be few s of dividual animals who engage exclively.

“This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’? ” But the journal that published the paper, Blogy Letters, sent out a prs release a few days after the California Supreme Court legalized gay marriage. A Denver-based publitn for gay parents weled any and all new rears om “the extensive lbian albatross parent muny.

” A gay rights advote e-mailed Young, askg her to fly a rabow flag above each female-female nt, to intify them and show solidary. In 1999, Bagemihl published “Blogil Exuberance, ” a book that pulled together a lossal amount of prev piecemeal rearch and showed how blogists’ bias had margalized animal homosexualy for the last 150 years — sometim nocently enough, sometim an eptn of anthropomorphic disgt. ” Homosexual sex between ostrich was terpreted by one scientist as “a nuisance” that “go on and on.

MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE

Homosexualy is a tough se, bee appears to vlate that central te, that all of sexual behavr is about reproductn.