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And that's fflg the feathers of gay activists who believe the zoo is standg the way of love. The bromance began March when Guido and Detlef—a pair of griffon vultur—began ntg together at the Allwetterzoo Münster, northwt Germany.

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

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“People always e up wh the argument that homosexualy is somehow agast nature.

" a 2006 exhibn at the Norwegian Natural History Mm of the Universy of Oslo that ed mols, photos, texts, and specimens (like the swans to the right) to rm visors about a small selectn of "gay" animals.

Scientists have observed homosexual behavr hundreds of animal speci, om sects to sheep.

CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Bonobos, one of our clost relativ, may be the most well-known homosexual whal, bottlenose dolphs, Wt Indian manate, and giraff are known to have all-male i. Homosexualy is most wispread among animals wh a plex herd life. Homosexualy also plays a social role among other male animals, such as big horn sheep and lns.

But rearchers have no ia what the advantage is, if any, of homosexual behavr among dragonfli, srab beetl, or, as observed at least once, two male octop of different speci. “This lony is lerally the largt proportn of — I don’t know what the rrect term is: ‘homosexual animals’? The qutn of whether animals n be gay is one that has long fascated and ed nsternatn to scientists and laypeople alike.

GERMAN ZOO ATTEMPTS TO RE-ORIENT GAY VULTUR

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. 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.

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.

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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. 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?

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And that’s fflg the feathers of gay activists who believe the zoo is standg the way of love. Apparently homophobia exists nature, too. (Read about Harry and Pepper, the San Francis Zoo’s gay pengus.

” (Read TIME’s article, “Why Some Animals (And People) Are Gay. Gay rights mpaigners have already staged one small prott outsi of the German zoo. (Read TIME’s article “The Gay Si of Nature.

“While the Roman-tholic church the arch-nservative area of Münsterland is jubilant, homosexual feratns and animal protectn anizatns om the whole world over are dignant. The world's first exhibn of homosexualy animals has shown that homosexualy humans is not unnatural.

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

Gay relatnships? Wh evince of male or female homosexual behavr between giraff, pengus, parrots, beetl, whal and dozens of other speci, the Oslo Mm of Natural History, Norway, nclus Homosexualy humans is not unnatural. Geir Soeli, head of the project lled " Agast Nature ", said: "Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 500 animals and has been scribed more than 500 speci".

It is part of life and brgs joy, " Soeli said of the reasons for gay and bisexual relatnships animals. Greek philosopher Aristotle mentned homosexual behavr hyenas om 2, 300 years ago, but evince of homosexualy animals is often ignored by rearchers due to disgt, lack of tert or lghs..

So where do homosexual behavr e om? Homosexual sex animals is jt one of many sexual behavrs.

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