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There is no homophobia in the animal kingdom
It's no covert that some humans are homosexual, but did you realize that the conduct is also very common in the animal kingdom? In fact, studies propose that around 1,500 animal species are known to rehearse regular same-sex coupling - from insects and fish to birds and mammals - with the actual number likely entity even higher.
"Being lgbtq+ is very ordinary and no issue in the organic world at all. In fact, we see more heterophobia than homophobia in the animal kingdom," Jasper Buikx, biologist at Amsterdam's ARTIS Zoo, told DW in an interview.
There are many reasons why these animals engage in gay activity. Sometimes, it's due to a lack of heterosexual partners, other times it's just for pleasure and in still other cases it's about forming social bonds or settling fights.
Most of these animals aren't purely homosexual - they also mate with the opposite gender, at least for procreation purposes. But there are a few examples of long-term exclusively homosexual relationships in the animal kingdom, with some of them even ending up forming a family.
Two gay male vultures successfully hatch an egg Breaking what is taboo for some, the Oslo Natural History Museum is currently showing an exhibition on homosexuality in the animal kingdom. Organisers say it is the first of its considerate in the world. "As homosexual people are often confronted with the argument that their way of living is against the principles of nature, we thought that ... as a scientific institution, we could at least present that this is not true," exhibition organiser Geir Soeli tells AFP. "You can think whatever you want about homosexuals but you cannot use that argument because it is very natural, it's very common in animal kingdom," Mr Soeli adds. From beetles to swans and creatures considered to have a more macho image, such as lions and sperm whales, homosexual behaviour has been detected in 1,500 species. The exhibition, entitled "Against Nature?", displays examples of this behaviour in pictures and models. In one image, two female adult bonobo chimpanzees are having sex, oblivious to a young male who is attempting to join in. These serene primates - with whom humans shares 99 per cen Imperial researchers are using a new approach to understand why same-sex behaviour is so common across the animal kingdom. Read this article in our new Imperial Stories immersive digital storytelling platform! In 1910, a team of scientists set off on the Terra Nova Expedition to explore Antarctica. Among them was George Murray Levick, a zoologist and photographer who would be the first researcher to study the world's largest Adélie penguin colony. He chronicled the animals' daily activities in great detail. In his notebooks, he described their sexual behaviour, including sex between male birds. However, none of these notes would manifest in Levick's published papers. Concerned by the graphic content, he only printed 100 copies of Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin to circulate privately. The last remaining copy was recently unearthed providing valuable insights into animal homosexuality research. But forays into animal homosexuality research long predate Levick, with observations published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s. More than 200 years later, investigate has moved past some of the taboos those e How gay is nature, really? In this exclusive excerpt of his book, A Little Gay Natural History, Josh Davis shines a light on the diversity of sex and sexual behaviour that’s always been observable in nature, for those who have been willing to look… The celestial body on which we reside is filled with an extraordinary range of animals, plants and fungi. Collectively, they exhibit an astonishing diversity when it comes to what they stare like, where they dwell and how they act. And nowhere is this truer than when it comes to their sex and sexual behaviours. It’s often quoted that around 1,500 species of animals show some form of homosexual behaviour. This includes animals from right across the vegetation of life: Hawaiian orb weaver spiders and frequent slipper shells, house flies, nematode worms and Humbolt squid, wood turtles, blackstripe topminnows, Guianan cock of-the-rocks and brown bears. But this figure is likely a massive underestimate. Considering these behaviours are found in almost every branch of the evolutionary tree, it seems highly unlikely that they are limited to just a few hundred species out of some 2.13 million named to date.
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