Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the Wild | Live Science

Contents:

• 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
• 11 GAYT ANIMALS ON EARTH – YOU WON’T BELIEVE HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE GAY!
• GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
• GAY ANIMALS

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas. While few animals are exclively “gay” or “lbian, ” an extraordary number, appears, engage some form of same-sex relatns.

Christian theologians have long poted to the absence of animal homosexualy as evince that humans oughtn’t to be dog , eher. Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals.

Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports. A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers. ’ ” Years later he relented, wrg that he eventually “admted that the rams lived sentially a homosexual society.

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse. ” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc.

LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS

“The bisexual advantage mol, ” Savolaen nclus, “is perhaps the most nservative geic explanatn for the persistence of homosexual behavr.

Therefore, aversn to homosexual sex would have had to specifilly arise over the history of life, which this team of rearchers fds unlikely, sce the opportuny st of same-sex sex is relatively low.

”As most any Homo sapiens will tell you, sex that don’t brg about offsprg n still be worthwhile. The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal. (As one gay weekly newspaper joked, “Grdr has announced a new gay cisg app for dolphs, lled Flippr.

11 GAYT ANIMALS ON EARTH – YOU WON’T BELIEVE HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE GAY!

Vasey and his team methodilly tted the var theori that have been proposed for the persistence of homosexual sex the monkeys: that the femal were exprsg domance; that they were barterg for parental re; that they were rencilg after a fight; or (my personal favore) that they were stagg sexual enunters to exce nearby mal, what I’d ll the “you wish, guys” theory of monkey lbianism.

Sodomy laws stayed on the books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led them unnstutnal — aid by an amic brief cg the rearch that had e out the meantime documentg homosexual activy among might have known about the sheer diversy of animal sexualy a long time ago if we, as a culture, had managed to lower our blrs.

GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD

Many animals show homosexual behavrs (goats, lns, ravens, beard dragons, ducks etc. In tribal animals, homosexualy sometim tak on a social role - occupyg unwanted mal or bondg male members of the pack. Studi have shown that 10 to 15 percent of female wtern gulls some populatns the wild exhib homosexual behavr.

40% of male Guianan-C o c k-of-the-Rocks engage some form of homosexualy sexual activy.

GAY ANIMALS

Scientists say that homosexual activy among giraff is, many s, much more mon than heterosexual activy. The gay activi of the mammals clu oral sex durg which time one dolph stimulat the other wh s snout. Do the term, “you’re a batty” e om ‘bats’ homosexual behavr then or is that jt a.