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To: Tired of Taxes
Lol on the zoo scenario! I feel for the dad ...obviously the last thing he expected to see (in essence when going to the zoo watch out for the apes and the monkeys)

Anyways going to the Bonobo ....it is the only mammal (other than humans) that engages in homosexual behavior regularly. In other animals (eg lil puppies, colts , some simian species etc) they will occasionally seem to mount each other (and sometimes actually mount) but this is usually among the young animals that just had a flash of mating instinct. It never lasts.

However the Bonobos seem to have developed that crazy stuff to a whole other level ....and if you read the post i placed (no. 5) you will notice the manner in which Bonobos engage in homosexual sex (and even the way they perfrom heterosexual sex).

Those apes are just ape!

Even among human lesbians i doubt they normally have sex the way Bonobos do .....at least not with one standing up and lifting the other! To refresh your memory on Bonobo lesbian sex here is part of the post: As for the homosexual behavior the Female Bonobos engage in genito-genital rubbing (or GG rubbing) between adult females. One female facing another clings with arms and legs to a partner that, standing on both hands and feet, lifts her off the ground. The two females then rub their genital swellings laterally together, emitting grins and squeals that probably reflect orgasmic experiences

I do not know what is up with Bonobos, but they sure are strange!

13 posted on 09/17/2002 7:45:56 AM PDT by spetznaz
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To: spetznaz
Dolphins as well. My sister is a marine biologist and has informed me that male dolphins pair up around the age of 10 or 12 (I forget now, exactly) and stay in their gay little "pair-bond" until the age of 24 or so when they go find a female to mate with and then most of them go back to their male 'friend' (pairs of females usually raise the dolphin young).

I have no problem with trying to study and draw parallels between monkeys & dolphins & other higher mammals but I cannot imagine how one translates the behavior of insects into anything even remotely human terms.
15 posted on 09/17/2002 9:35:42 AM PDT by AntiGuv
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To: spetznaz
Do Bonobos remain monogamous? Do homosexual ape couples attempt to raise (others) ape children to meet a parental nurturing instinct?
43 posted on 09/17/2002 3:58:06 PM PDT by weegee
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