Homosexuality Common in the Wild, Scientists Say

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[Pizonce11]

As gay couples celebrate their newfound right to marry in California and opposition groups rally to fight the ruling, many struggle with this question: Is homosexuality natural?

On this issue, Nature has spoken: Same-sex lovin' is common in hundreds of species, scientists say.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched.

According to University of Oslo zoologist Petter Böckman, about 1,500 animal species are known to practice same-sex coupling, including bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls, salmon and many others.

If homosexuality is natural in the animal kingdom, then there is the question of why evolution hasn't eliminated this trait from the gene pool, since it doesn't lead to reproduction.

[Argus]

Eating your own young is common in the wild too. Expect the California Supreme Court to legalize it next.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Brokeback Mountain goats ;-)

[Grizzled Bear]

Dogs eat feces but it’s not something to be emulated.

[EagleandLiberty]

Who are these so-called SCIENCISTS? Will someone name them??

[pissant]

Dogs are happy to hump a human’s leg.

[pillut48]

And monkeys like to toss poop around, will that be legalized next?? Doi.

[xcamel]

aids, gay bowel syndrome, and chronic vaginitis, are unheard of in the “gay” animal world.. not to mention sapience.

[SkyDancer]

In the wild sometimes its of necessity ... male bears eat their young, female bears come together to protect the infant males .... where do these “scientists” live? In the lower east side of NYC???

[Secret Agent Man]

Okay, so you can find examples of abnormality and unnaturalness in other species. So? That doesn’t make it right or a good thing for one guy to stick his jolly roger up another’s pooper.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Well, everyone knows penguins are gay!

[Stepan12]

Unless one can talk to the animals (Dr. Doolittle), we can't be sure what they're trying to accomplish with male to male interactions.

And which animal interactions should we mimick? Cannibalism? Eating excrement? Come to think of it, human homosexuals do that already, Jeffrey Dahmer; etc.

[Secret Agent Man]

Tell that to the fecophiliacs. ;) /sarc

[mickeylee]

"Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo, were a couple for about six years, during which they nurtured a fertilized egg together (given to them by a zookeeper) and raised the young chick that hatched."

Amazing that these "scientists" are not aware of the fact that that is how baby penguins are hatched in the wild while the mothers go out and look for food. Apparently they don't watch Animal Planet.

[derllak]

Lol! And nobody EVER better try to sniff my rear end. :)

[TornadoAlley3]

[Diogenesis]

What is the point? Do these animals get married?

or will Chief Judge Anthony Lewis-Margaret Marshall (NYTimes, MA)
now demand that all children have an early homosexual rape
by their teachers?

[holden]

Noting such behavior among homosexuals, we've known for a long time they were behaving just like animals.

As Serge, of Beverly Hills Cop fame, was wont to say, "Ahn-i-maal!"

HF

[icwhatudo]

ROTFLMAO!!! POST OF THE DAY!

[pissant]

There was a Aussie politician that was sniffing the chairs of good looking females. But that is natural human behavior.