Men should be able to marry pillows if they want. Who's to judge?
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Animals commit rape, murder, incest, and cross species “mating”. They also eat their own poop.
The NYet Times thinks that civilization and rising above animal instincts is overrated.
Bear Grylls drinks his own urine.
Men should be able to marry pillows if they want. Who's to judge?
LOL
According to the article, the female birds hatch eggs and care for the young soooooo a male was in there somewhere. I am guessing they are “sisters” and the male was killed. You see a lot of mounting on farms by animals. It is a dominant gesture. We had neutered males dogs together in pens and they would take turns licking each others privates. We have one heeler who has perfected humping his own belly/chest. Pretty funny to see too.
I’m trying to be gay (as in happy).My cat Pumpkin,who’s at least 19 lbs.,makes me feel gay!
I can’t imagine wearing that. The bottom looks too uncomfortable!
"Sit Sparky. Good boy, now shake. Goood boy. Now, don't be gay."
Is ram behaviour evidence of “natural” homosexuality?
http://www.mygenes.co.nz/rams.htm
Conclusions:
1. The tests for homosexuality are rather dubious
2. Bisexuality is common - exclusive homosexuality seems rare
3. The documented rate is about 1%
4. Environment has a large effect.
Please be kind to this man when you post about about him. He is long gone but his wife may still be living.
I love my cats and dogs, too.
‘Not that there’s anything WRONG with that...’ LOL! :)
My cat means the world to me.He keeps me company when I’m not feeling well.He’ll stay on my bed all night.It’s comforting to feel his big lump of a body at my feet!
LOL
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