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Can Animals Be Gay?
New York Times ^ | March 29, 2010 | JON MOOALLEM

Posted on 04/04/2010 4:51:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Laysan albatross is a downy seabird with a seven-foot wingspan and a notched, pale yellow beak. Every November, a small colony of albatrosses assembles at a place called Kaena Point, overlooking the Pacific at the foot of a volcanic range, on the northwestern tip of Oahu, Hawaii. Each bird has spent the past six months in solitude, ranging over open water as far north as Alaska, and has come back to the breeding ground to reunite with its mate. Albatrosses can live to be 60 or 70 years old and typically mate with the same bird every year, for life. Their “divorce rate,” as biologists term it, is among the lowest of any bird.

When I visited Kaena Point in November, the first birds were just returning, and they spent a lot of their time gliding and jackknifing in the wind a few feet overhead or plopped like cushions in the sand. There are about 120 breeding albatrosses in the colony, and gradually, each will arrive and feel out the crowd for the one other particular albatross it has been waiting to have sex with again. At any given moment in the days before Thanksgiving, some birds may be just turning up while others sit there killing time. It feels like an airport baggage-claim area.

Once together, pairs will copulate and collaboratively incubate a single egg for 65 days. They take shifts: one bird has to sit at the nest while the other flaps off to fish and eat for weeks at a time. Couples preen each other’s feathers and engage in elaborate mating behaviors and displays. “Like when you’re in a couple,” Marlene Zuk, a biologist who has visited the colony, explained to me.

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: animals; anotherstudy; bestiality; homosexual; homosexualagenda; ivorytower; junkscience; lavendermafia; pravdamedia; pseudoscience
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1 posted on 04/04/2010 4:51:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Makes sense that you’d read this in the NY Times, doesn’t it?


2 posted on 04/04/2010 4:52:34 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: nickcarraway

Forward to the 48th second

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103337/?searchterm=south%20park%20is%20gay


3 posted on 04/04/2010 4:53:19 PM PDT by Perdogg (Nancy Pelosi did more damage to America on 03/21 than Al Qaeda did on 09/11)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, Please. According to the NY Times, we’re ALL gay...some of us just don’t know it yet, LOL!


4 posted on 04/04/2010 4:55:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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To: nickcarraway

To the headline: no.


5 posted on 04/04/2010 4:55:58 PM PDT by svcw (Religion is like giving someone who is dying of thirst mouthwash.)
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To: nickcarraway

Can animals have a lifestyle?


6 posted on 04/04/2010 4:57:06 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nickcarraway
Can Animals Be Gay?

Sure they can. And then they go extinct because they don't reproduce.......who writes this BS?

7 posted on 04/04/2010 4:57:29 PM PDT by ScreamingFist
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To: nickcarraway

this thread is gay.


8 posted on 04/04/2010 4:57:35 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

They just sent you a telegram letting you know.


9 posted on 04/04/2010 4:57:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Well actually- my sister had two dogs (yorkie's) that seemed to be... homo-dogs.

But then, I think some dogs would do it with anything.

10 posted on 04/04/2010 4:58:11 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: nickcarraway

Having witnessed a female kitty mount another female kitty in heat I have to wonder sometimes.... ;-)


11 posted on 04/04/2010 4:58:17 PM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Brilliant

And here I am thinking that the NYT couldnt come up with another libtard story..


12 posted on 04/04/2010 4:58:18 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

And being gay is so much more HUMAN than being staight. They are just better people than us hetros. [/s]


13 posted on 04/04/2010 4:58:58 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: nickcarraway

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not only did I have LESBIAN dogs, I have GAY Parakeets!

So there you have it.

Video is available on request. Just kidding. LOL!


14 posted on 04/04/2010 4:59:44 PM PDT by purpleporter
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To: nickcarraway
Ten pages on female albatrosses. Good use of valuable news space, compared to the drivel the Slimes usually perpetrates. But to what end? What is the point?
15 posted on 04/04/2010 5:00:02 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: nickcarraway

And this is what people worry about?


16 posted on 04/04/2010 5:00:13 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: Drango

You crack me up.


17 posted on 04/04/2010 5:00:34 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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To: nickcarraway
Only when they are young.

When they are older they have way too much responsibility just surviving.

That's when they become pragmatic.

18 posted on 04/04/2010 5:01:44 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: nickcarraway

My girlfriend’s dog humps any human with a leg.


19 posted on 04/04/2010 5:02:28 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: nickcarraway
Ungaying the post........
20 posted on 04/04/2010 5:03:25 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (These are the times that try men's souls.)
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