Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay | Live Science

why birds sing so gay

Contents:

WHY DO BIRDS SG SO GAY?

But have you ever wonred why birds sg so gay? There are many reasons why birds sg so gay.

But have you ever wonred why they sg so gay?

WHY IT'S OK FOR BIRDS TO BE GAY

So there you have : Birds sg so gay bee they want to get laid. Nearly one-fifth of all long-term greylag gee upl are gay, posed of two mal.

They're not alone: More than 130 bird speci are known to engage homosexual behavr at least ocsnally, a fact that has puzzled all, evolutnary terms same-sex matg seems to rce the birds' chanc of reproductive succs. In some speci the same-sex pairs even raise young (nceived wh outsi partners, obvly) and stay together for several 2007, a team led by Geoff MacFarlane, a blogist at the Universy of Newstle Atralia, reported that male homosexual behavr was more mon polygyno bird speci, where mal mate wh numero femal, and that female homosexual behavr was more mon monogamo speci.

Srg sexTo fd out whether the theory might extend to homosexual behavr, MacFarlane and his team exhstively bed the lerature for acunts of same-sex urtship, mountg, or pair bondg.

WHY DO BIRDS SG SO GAY....

They foced on the 93 bird speci whose homosexual teractns scientists had seen the wild.

For each speci, the team lculated the equency of homosexual behavr as well as both sex' ntributns to parentg.

WHY DO BIRDS SING SO GAY?

Overall, homosexual behavr amounted to ls than 5 percent of all sexual activy the 93 speci, though some s was much higher. And sure enough, there was a strong rrelatn between a speci' matg system and s homosexual behavr. The balance shifted to femal socially monogamo speci, where the sex spl the work more far, female homosexualy hasn't turned up the handful of birds where each female mat wh many mal, but MacFarlane's team predicts may.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* WHY BIRDS SING SO GAY

WHY DO BIRDS SING SO GAY?.

TOP