Contents:
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
- MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
- GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
- CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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.
They share about 99% of their DNA wh humans, and they’re gay as hell. Homosexual sex has been observed a number of dolph speci, but has been studied most thoroughly bottlenose dolphs. Photo: JMx Imag (Shutterstock)Giraffe sex is more gay than straight.
MALE LN CGHT “MATG” WH MALE LN… GAY PRI? NOT QUE
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.
The olst evince of a (maybe) gay man dat back to 2900 to 2500 years ago. 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.
” Garter snak, gopher snak, and rattlnak all exhib “queer” behavr of var typ, but the gayt of all are flower pot snak, all of whom are female. However, scientific quiry to such behavrs didn’t happen until relatively recently due to historilly pervasive, negative attus towards homosexualy humans. New work by evolutnary blogists suggts that perhaps, bld by historil homophobia, we have been askg the wrong qutn all along.
GAY ANIMALS: ALTERNATE LIFTYL THE WILD
In the past, was thought that female maqu engage homosexual relatnships this way only when suable mal are not prent. In other words, rearchers assumed that homosexual behavr only happens when animals are isolated om members of the oppose sex.
Intertgly enough, siar views once existed ncerng human homosexualy.
Therefore, acrdg to experts, many female Japane maqu nnot be nsired eher preferentially homo- or heterosexual.
CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?
On the other hand, bee female maqu will reproduce wh mal throughout their lifetime regardls of their tert homosexual behavr, the end the relatnships do not acce any st to lifetime reproductn. But new rearch shows that even the direct benefs are not required for the persistence of homosexual behavr animals. By sheddg the taboo of the study of homosexualy wildlife and makg the shift om Why?
A first-ever mm display, "Agast Nature?, " which opened last month at the Universy of Oslo's Natural History Mm Norway, prents 51 speci of animals exhibg homosexualy. "Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 500 speci, and the phenomenon has been well scribed for 500 of them, " said Petter Bockman, project ordator of the ia, however, is rarely discsed the scientific muny and is often dismissed as unnatural bee don't appear to benef the larger e of speci ntuatn. Conversely, some argue that homosexual sex uld have a bigger natural e than jt pure ecstasy: namely evolutnary benefs.
In suatns when a speci is mostly bisexual, homosexual relatnships allow an animal to jo a pack.