[MEGoody]

How does one 'encourage' one ram to mount another?

I do wonder whether there were females available to these rams during the study. Didn't see that mentioned in the article.

I've seen lots of claims of 'homosexuality' among animals, but the reality is, animals are instinct driven. Once those hormones kick in, the males will mount anything that doesn't mount them first. I wouldn't call that 'homosexuality'.

[jagusafr]

THANK you! As I've heard it stated, the sexual urge doesn't care where it's satisfied, it just wants to be satisfied! That's why any sexual conduct is a choice: we CHOOSE where to satisfy that sexual urge.

[Mr. Silverback]

What I find interesting is the idea that homosexual behavior in animals not only proves something about humans, but should promote acceptance. My daughter's guinea pig eats its droppings, should we all embrace that? How about animals that eat the young of other members of their own species? How about animals that eat their own young? (Oh wait, liberals support those last two, it's called "Planned Parenthood.") Or take the many animals who aren't afraid to eat carrion. Should we re-engineer the FDA regs so your supermarket can sell you burgers from a cow that dropped dead? Liberals would respond that, unlike us, carrion eaters have immune systems that can deal with the diseases in the dead animals, but we don't. Well, that's fine, but the human anus is obviously not meant to be a repository for the human penis, but that never stopped libs from promoting homosexuality, so why should this scientific data stop us? Mmmmmm...you can tastte the mad cow!

But I guess we should keep it to sex, so...what about male animals with multiple mates? Libs will tell you all day long that gay marriage will never lead to legalized polygamy and that they would oppose such a thing, but if we're going to accept the bahavior we see in the animal world we not only have to back polygamy, we have to allow men to have harems. In fact, we have to allow men to decide if they want a harem or if they (like tigers) want to hump a series of different females and contribute absolutely nothing--not one cent of child support, not one attendance at a school play, no need to even be around after you get her pregnant--to the upbringing of their offspring.

Hmmm...sounds like that just doesn't work all that well...