it seems homosexuality is prevalentin the Animal Kingdom

CorkMan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

From the above articles (good sources are given for the content)

Elephants

African and Asian males will engage in same-sex bonding and mounting. Such encounters are often associated with affectionate interactions, such as kissing, trunk intertwining, and placing trunks in each other's mouths. Male elephants, who often live apart from the general herd, often form "companionships", consisting of an older individual and one or sometimes two younger, attendant males with sexual behavior being an important part of the social dynamic. Unlike heterosexual relations, which are always of a fleeting nature, the relationships between males may last for years. The encounters are analogous to heterosexual bouts, one male often extending his trunk along the other's back and pushing forward with his tusks to signify his intention to mount. Same-sex relations are common and frequent in both sexes, with Asiatic elephants in captivity devoting roughly 45% of sexual encounters to same-sex activity.[64]


Giraffes

Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[65] In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.[66]

Lions

Both male and female lions have been seen to interact homosexually.[70][71] Male lions pair-bond for a number of days and initiate homosexual activity with affectionate nuzzling and caressing, leading to mounting and thrusting. About 8% of mountings have been observed to occur with other males. Pairings between females are held to be fairly common in captivity but have not been observed in the wild.

Interesting. I wonder how prevalent homosexuality is really in fellas? According to official lists the number isn't very high, but we all have all heard stories about men going to jail and having sex with other men there.

amacachi

No surprise that giraffes are the gayest animal.

minidazzler

Men going to jail in the Animal Kingdom? That's a little disturbing.

Rented Mule

I still blame the Greeks.

laoch na mona

we must inform the priest :O

tallaghtmick

This thread is gay.

My name is URL

Is there something you want to get off your chest CorkMan?

orourkeda

Is swinging prevalent?

AnonoBoy

Prevalentin?

Is that a medicine you take before the onset of Valent?

(What the hell is Valent?)

CorkMan

If I never had a gal for a while sometimes I thing about fellas.

MagicSean

CorkMan wrote: »

but we all have all heard stories about men going to jail and having sex with other men there.

There's a difference between consentual sex and prison rape.

orourkeda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwQ9xnE9XuY

Emiko

There's a section for gay animals in Amsterdam Zoo, iirc.

Big Nasty

You're havin' a giraffe! :eek::eek::eek:

Son Of A Vidic

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Prevalentin?

Is that a medicine you take before the onset of Valent?

It's a new treatment for gheyness and clinical trials had a high cure rate apparently.

Emiko

MCMLXXV wrote: »

You're havin' a giraffe! :eek::eek::eek:

I'm not lion.

Might have been a once off, though...http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/07/gay_animals_get_focus_at_this.php

AnonoBoy

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

It's a new treatment for gheyness and clinical trials had a high cure rate apparently.

But if you cure gayness then who will bitch about supermodels for us?

CreepingDeath

CorkMan wrote: »

it seems homosexuality is prevalentin the Animal Kingdom

Should it not be the Animal Queendom ?

CorkMan

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Should it not be the Animal Queendom ?

Tell that or a lions face! Or Giraffes.

stupidusername

After mating season,while the female mallards go build a nest and lay eggs and take care of the brood,the male goes and tries it on with other males.you'll see it all over the place if you look out for it.saw it a lot a few weeks back.very funny

rubadub

CorkMan wrote: »

I wonder how prevalent homosexuality is really in fellas?

And what about women, from your same page...

The Bonobo, which has a matriarchal society, unusual amongst apes, is a fully bisexual species—both males and females engage in heterosexual and homosexual behavior, being noted for female-female homosexuality in particular. About 60% of all sexual activity in this species is between two or more females. While the homosexual bonding system in Bonobos represents the highest frequency of homosexuality known in any species, homosexuality has been reported for all great apes (a group which includes humans), as well as a number of other primate species.

The_Minister

Anyone else notice that most of the examples cited in this thread show bisexuality not homosexuality?

paddyandy

Go and live with the Animals and feel at Home.

Sea Sharp

If you say you agree with this and people are gayer than they think.......................................you're gay.

OneArt

stupidusername wrote: »

After mating season,while the female mallards go build a nest and lay eggs and take care of the brood,the male goes and tries it on with other males.you'll see it all over the place if you look out for it.saw it a lot a few weeks back.very funny

Oh, look Emily, the birds are resorting to wanton acts of buggery! I say, how crude!

*good-natured chortle*

LaVail

What about batman and robin?

Links234

transsexuality is prevalent in the animal kingdom too!

http://i.imgur.com/wKr1h.jpg

Xivilai

LaVail wrote: »

What about batman and robin?

tan11ie

CorkMan wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

From the above articles (good sources are given for the content)



Interesting. I wonder how prevalent homosexuality is really in fellas? According to official lists the number isn't very high, but we all have all heard stories about men going to jail and having sex with other men there.

They should really introduce shower gels.

stovelid

CorkMan wrote: »

Lions

Pairings between females are held to be fairly common in captivity but have not been observed in the wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzpQ80BGPPk

Saila

I reckon our ancestors were bi-sexual, in a **** anything that moves kind of way I reckon we took all that we could get in an any hole will do kind of way

Nodin

Saila wrote: »

I reckon our ancestors were bi-sexual, in a **** anything that moves kind of way I reckon we took all that we could get in an any hole will do kind of way

When did we evolve to a predominantly "if its got big knockers" world view, do you think?