Gay animals | Psychology Today

Contents:

• 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
• LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
• GAY ANIMALS WH THEIR HOMOSEXUAL NATURE
• HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
• 5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
• GAY ANIMALS
• ANIMAL HOMOSEXUALY: GAY ANIMALS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL

In fact, no speci has actually been monstrated to show no cince of homosexual behavur at all, apart om those that don't actually have sex. More than 200 years later, rearch has moved past some of the taboos those early rearchers faced and shown that homosexualy is much more mon than prevly thought. Rearchers are now gog beyond jt observg though, wh rearchers at Imperial leadg the way unravellg how, and why, homosexualy is found across nature.

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

This suggts that homosexual activy is not a recent human nstct, cultural or even evolutnary terms, but stead occurs along many branch on the tree of life. Female homosexualy has been well studied Japane maqu, but Clive's rearch would exame how homosexual behavur differs mal and across environments. Rerdg homosexual behavur the wild and llectg blood sampl are the first steps for Clive; the next is sequencg DNA to search for nnectns between the behavur and geic markers.

This ia stemmed om a study showg a rrelatn between geic marker Xq28 and male homosexualy, although there were statistil uncertati about some of the fdgs. Then they n see what this should look like the real blogil and heredary factors of homosexualy are most certaly not tied to a sgle gene.

GAY ANIMALS WH THEIR HOMOSEXUAL NATURE

Importantly, this will clu exploratn of homosexual partners the hope of unrstandg different mate-choice strategi reproductive and non-reproductive ntexts. Versluys says: "Homosexualy is still somethg that's not always well unrstood among the scientific muny and maybe even more poorly unrstood among the general populatn.

And spe the acknowledgement of how wispread homosexualy is nature, rearchers have to ntend wh a arth of rearch that should have been built up over s. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?

Rehgly, Alaimo not this began to shift wh the publitns of Bce Bagemihl’s Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy (1999) and Joan Roughgarn’s Evolutn’s Rabow: Diversy, Genr, and Sexualy Nature and People (2004). 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)?

5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY

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.

” 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.

GAY ANIMALS

*Note: We tentnally do not e terms such as “heterosexual” or “homosexual” to prevent any nflatn between human sexualy and nonhuman animal sexual behavrs. 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.

" was set up partly to mystify the argument that a homosexual way of livg nnot be accepted bee is agast the "laws of nature" n now be rejected scientifilly, said Geir Soli, project lear for the exhibn.

ANIMAL HOMOSEXUALY: GAY ANIMALS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW

"To learn more, see LiveScience's Top 10 prentatn, Gay Animals: Alternate Liftyl the Really Wild StoriSpir Cri Out While MatgThe Paful Reali of Hyena SexSalmon of Small Stature Endowed wh Matg AdvantageWell-fed Crickets Seek Sex Incsantly, Die YoungMystery of Empty Chicken Sex SolvedSmart Bats Have Smaller Tticl. For the animals, there is documented evince of homosexual behavr of one or more of the followg kds: sex, urtship, affectn, pair bondg, or parentg, as noted rearcher and thor Bce Bagemihl's 1999 book Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy. Bagemihl wr that the prence of same-sex sexual behavr was not "officially" observed on a large sle until the 1990s due to observer bias ed by social attus towards nonheterosexual people, makg the homosexual theme taboo.

[2][3] Bagemihl vot three chapters, "Two Hundred Years at Lookg at Homosexual Wildlife", "Explag (Away) Animal Homosexualy" and "Not For Breedg Only" his 1999 book Blogil Exuberance to the "documentatn of systematic prejudic" where he not "the prent ignorance of blogy li precisely s sgle-md attempt to fd reproductive (or other) 'explanatns' for homosexualy, transgenr, and non-procreative and alternative heterosexuali. Bagemihl's rearch shows that homosexual behavr, not necsarily sex, has been documented about five hundred speci as of 1999, rangg om primat to gut worms.