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To: Dog Gone
Does anyone know what she is talking about when she says homosexual behavior is well documented? I mean just because someone has a close friendship or in the case of a swan being a pair doesn't necessarily make it sexual. I have heard this argument before but have yet to see actual homosexual activity among any animals.
8 posted on 08/15/2005 5:49:01 PM PDT by Archon of the East ("universal executive power of the law of nature")
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To: Archon of the East
I have heard this argument before but have yet to see actual homosexual activity among any animals.

I have seen such activity, interestingly it was among waterfowl. Ducks specifically. Ducks do not strike me as very intelligent - they have a strong libido in the springtime but don't have the smarts to tell the difference between male and female ducks. The male ducks basically jump on anything that looks like a duck, regardless of gender, and hope for the best. I should note that these trysts look very violent, with the penetrating male jabbing the neck of his male or female partner with his beak very violently. If I had to compare it to human behavior, I'd say these ducks are rapists. Yet this is "natural." This is why it is so silly to use animal behavior as justification for human behavior. Lots of nasty behaviors come naturally to animals - does that mean people should emulate them?

31 posted on 08/15/2005 7:07:46 PM PDT by sassbox
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