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Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual

  • 11-12-2010 1:53am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭


    Male birds that eat mercury-contaminated food show "surprising" homosexual behavior, scientists have found.

    In a recent experiment in captive white ibises, many of the males exposed to the metal chose other males as mates.
    These "male-male pairs did everything that a heterosexual pair would do," said study leader Peter Frederick, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
    "They built their nest, copulated together, stayed together on a nest for a month, even though there were no eggs—they did the whole nine yards."




    source national geographic


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    Let's expose homophobes to mercury for comic effect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭digme


    Let's expose homophobes to mercury for comic effect.
    your assuming your in the majority lol
    lets :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,582 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Was it Freddy Mercury by any chance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭alphabeat


    since the first time most kids get to meet mercury is when they get a thermometer up the hole -

    i wonder is there a link ?


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