Homosexuality Common in the Wild, Scientists Say

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[Pizonce11]

As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?

On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched.

According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others.

If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn't eliminated this trait from the gene pool, since it doesn't lead to reproduction.

[Argus]

Eating your own young is common in the wild too. Expect the California Supreme Court to legalize it next.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Brokeback Mountain goats ;-)

[Grizzled Bear]

Dogs eat feces but it’s not something to be emulated.

[EagleandLiberty]

Who are these so-called SCIENCISTS? Will someone name them??

[pissant]

Dogs are happy to hump a human’s leg.

[pillut48]

And monkeys like to toss poop around, will that be legalized next?? Doi.

[xcamel]

aids, gay bowel syndrome, and chronic vaginitis, are unheard of in the “gay” animal world.. not to mention sapience.

[SkyDancer]

In the wild sometimes its of necessity ... male bears eat their young, female bears come together to protect the infant males .... where do these “scientists” live? In the lower east side of NYC???

[Secret Agent Man]

Okay, so you can find examples of abnormality and unnaturalness in other species. So? That doesn’t make it right or a good thing for one guy to stick his jolly roger up another’s pooper.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Well, everyone knows penguins are gay!

[Stepan12]

Unless one can talk to the animals (Dr. Doolittle), we can't be sure what they're trying to accomplish with male to male interactions.

And which animal interactions should we mimick? Cannibalism? Eating excrement? Come to think of it, human homosexuals do that already, Jeffrey Dahmer; etc.

[Secret Agent Man]

Tell that to the fecophiliacs. ;) /sarc

[mickeylee]

"Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched."

Amazing that these "scientists" are not aware of the fact that that is how baby penguins are hatched in the wild while the mothers go out and look for food. Apparently they don't watch Animal Planet.

[derllak]

Lol! And nobody EVER better try to sniff my rear end. :)

[TornadoAlley3]

[Diogenesis]

What is the point? Do these animals get married?

or will Chief Judge Anthony Lewis-Margaret Marshall (NYTimes, MA)
now demand that all children have an early homosexual rape
by their teachers?

[holden]

Noting such behavior among homosexuals, we've known for a long time they were behaving just like animals.

As Serge, of Beverly Hills Cop fame, was wont to say, "Ahn-i-maal!"

HF

[icwhatudo]

ROTFLMAO!!! POST OF THE DAY!

[pissant]

There was a Aussie politician that was sniffing the chairs of good looking females. But that is natural human behavior.

[Secret Agent Man]

Great point. Confirmation homosexuals behave like animals.

You realize the evolutionists also say ‘no kidding.’ Just for different reasons.

[cripplecreek]

I get a funny feeling when I watch the Simpsons. I fear I may be Homer sexual.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I call BS on this. It is not common for animals of the same sex to ‘pair up’. They might hang out together, but that is not the same thing and bonding with a mate and actually ‘mating’. I have watched literally hundreds of hours of nature documentaries and never has this been mentioned. Species don’t get very far by being homosexual.

[indylindy]

I beg to differ, it is rampant in large metro areas.

[Lizavetta]

Animals also practice segregation. They don't mix with species not like themselves.

Is the gay mafia sure they want to go down this road?

[Anti-Bubba182]

I googled "Petter Böckman" and all I get is this gay animal story. I wonder how he takes it? Not only that but animals are subject to rut not romantic sexual desire. They could hump their own sex like a dog humps a persons leg.

If the animals don't know any better it does not provide an excuse for people.

[layman]

I’ve always suspected that penguins are basically gay. I mean ... have you ever watched them walk?

[bmwcyle]

And itss thos wild in thsan Francisssssco.

[uptoolate]

I call BS on this. It is not common for animals of the same sex to ‘pair up’. They might hang out together, but that is not the same thing and bonding with a mate and actually ‘mating’. I have watched literally hundreds of hours of nature documentaries and never has this been mentioned. Species don’t get very far by being homosexual.

Exactly! You're not Just A Dumb Blonde after all!

[Enchante]

Killing the offspring of rivals and/or forcibly taking over the young in rival nests, etc. happens in nature — I hope no one is suggesting human norms should be derived from any animal behaviors just so we can be more “natural”......

[Tallguy]

Polygamy is also natural in the sense that male animals often secure & maintain a 'harem' of females for breeding purposes. This pushes immature males to the periphery where, in some species, homosexual behavior may be observed.

Evidently these scientists haven't noticed that humans invented a little thing called 'civilization'.

[elpadre]

I believe the master plan for each species is to produce offspring to keep on keeping on. Remember the ark = two by two so that they could reproduce. Anything else in contrary to the plan = an anomaly.

[ModelBreaker]

As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?

This is entirely the wrong question. If our standards as humans are to be set by whatever animals do, then killing infants fathered by other men in the neighborhood should be OK. Ripping out the throat of your boss to become the new, department supervisor is OK. And, eating your husband after he has sex with you would be just fine.

Why does article have anything to do with what humans should do, as opposed to what they might want to do?

[CaspersGh0sts]

I’d like to take note that homosexual marriage has not been accepted in a single society on earth at any time in history save the last 15-years or so in a few secular nations whose family structure is so inherently flawed as to be incapable of doing something so basic as producing the next generation.

That to me says something about the place for “gay marriage” in a functional, healthy human society.

[dr_who]

This means that homosexuals should all be put in zoos.

[dr_who]

Well, either that or released into the wild and protected by the EPA.

[Chesterbelloc]

My first thought was “so is cannibalism” - and I see the first comment says the same thing.

[goodnesswins]

ROFLLLLLLLL

[DuncanWaring]

...about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling...

What do they mean by "coupling"?

Is it just "hanging around together", or is actual buggery?

Somehow I seriously doubt it's the latter.

[DuncanWaring]

I’d like to take note that homosexual marriage has not been accepted in a single society on earth at any time in history...

That's because "marriage" has never been a "right".

It's always been an obligation, intended to be undertaken by a male and a female prior to engaging in behavior which might be reasonably expected to produce children.

No activity by a homosexual couple can be reasonably be expected to prodduce children.

An obligation, not a right.

[Chickensoup]

Yes, that is why they call them animals.

[EagleandLiberty]

So True!!

[21twelve]

Ah - there is a reason why we call them “animals”.

But of course that is lost on the folks that believe that humans are no better than animals - and perhaps worse.

[weegee]

They also mount animals of other species. Bestiality should be legalized as “normal” too?

[peeps36]

I thought man evolved into an advanced life form that knew the difference between right and wrong. Animals don’t think the same way we do. What we might call gay behavior, an animal might call asserting dominance over a rival.

[EagleandLiberty]

I fear I may be Homer sexual.

LOL, Homersexual...

[weegee]

The scientists don’t want to accept a concept of CIVILIZED behavior. Bet they are on the side of “negotiating” with enemies rather than defending territory or even expanding the range. War is “natural” too.

[weegee]

The sex positive agenda seeks to end ALL moral judgements over ALL sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, marital status, relation, number, or species of partner(s).

[Varda]

“same-sex coupling”

Every time I’ve looked into one of these claims I find a homosexual who is trying to pretend his behavior is “natural”. Not once have I found that any animals that have a common behavior of attempting to form a mating pair bond (reproductive behavior) with a member of their own sex. I CALL BS.

[derllak]

Really? Seriously? I think those Aussies spend way too much time in the outbacks. Yuck. :P