LGBTQ+ is not only among human begs, but also wh animals. Know more about Gay animals and their homosexualy behavur
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
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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. 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.
LBIAN ALBATROSS AND GAY GIRAFF? THE SCIENCE ON SAME-SEX SEXUALY ANIMALS
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.
GAY ANIMALS WH THEIR HOMOSEXUAL NATURE
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.
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.
HOW COMMON ARE GAY ANIMALS?
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. 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).
5 ANIMAL SPECI THAT ARE TOTALLY GAY
Photo: Julia Zavalisha (Shutterstock)There are still people out there who thk that beg gay is “unnatural, ” but they uldn’t be more wrong.
GAY ANIMALS
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)?
ANIMAL HOMOSEXUALY: GAY ANIMALS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
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.