Contents:
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- FLIPPER CLEARED! DOLPHS ARE NOT GAY OR BISEXUAL RAPISTS AFTER ALL
- MORE GAY DOLPHS OBSERVED OFF COAST OF WTERN ATRALIA
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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. Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals.
FLIPPER CLEARED! DOLPHS ARE NOT GAY OR BISEXUAL RAPISTS AFTER ALL
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.
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. “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. The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal. 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.
MORE GAY DOLPHS OBSERVED OFF COAST OF WTERN ATRALIA
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.
Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now. Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
"The homosexual behavr that go on is pletely bafflg and trigug, " says Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer rrponnt, Mireya Mayor. "Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs. The fact that homosexualy do, after all, exist the natural world is bound to be ed agast people who sist such behavr is the U.
Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society. For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy?
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
"The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare. However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive. Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong.
It’s been observed more than 1, 500 animal speci, om sects and other vertebrat, right up the evolutnary ladr to primat and the most part, we’re not sure why—what evolutnary advantage do homosexual uplg provi to dolphs (other than happier dolphs)?
What’s really unnatural is that so many people still assume animals adhere to the “moral” of a small number of humans—so if you happen to n to anyone like that, pot them to this list of the 11 most gay animals on Sergey Uryadnikov (Shutterstock)Bonobos, a speci of great ap native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are the hippi of the animal kgdom. In parison, female giraff only get by wh other femal about 1% of the Jaroslav Seker (Shutterstock)Both male and female lns have been observed exhibg homosexual behavr. Sce funerary practic were so important to the ancient people, probably wasn’t an accint, and scientists speculate that uld have been bee he was gay or trans.