Is there anything like a gay dog or any other animals except humans?

Question

just thinking

Answer 1

Anyone who says homosexuality isn't natural hasn't studied the topic in animals ^.^ .

Homosexuality's been found in over 300 species of animal, from lizards, sheep, several species of bird, dolphins and apes. They did studies in Rams and discovered some rams only showed sexual interest in other rams by picturing the way their brains reacted. I currently have a lesbian pair of budgies who will pose for other hens (even other species) and will ignore male budgies in the cage.

This is common with birds. Many parrots will bond to one sex or the other and will ignore birds of the opposite gender. In Zebra Finches, when two birds of the sex pair up, one will take the role of the male and the other the female, even to the point where one incubates like the female!

There's one species of lizard that reproduces without the need of a male. All the lizards are female and are born pregnant. It's rather unusual as the species is actually a hybrid! In primates, Bonobos (pigmy chimps) actively have sex with males and females both, often soliciting anyone who has food for sex. Female have been seen stimulating other females and males have been seen stimulating other males.

Dolphins have been witnessed having sex with males and females both. One aquarium lost a female when they introduced her to a bonded pair of male bottle nosed dolphins.

To answer your question - yes. Homosexuality does exist in other animals besides humans.

Answer 2

Camels actually do have a tendancy to be gay. When a male dogs humps another he is not being "gay" he is expressing dominance if you are having a problem with that. If your dog is not yet sexually mature, or he has a health problem in that "area" he will not show interest in females. If he is under about two or three years of age then don't worry. Over that, maybe a vet should be asked. If he is fixed then he will not show interest in females either.

Answer 3

My male cockatoo who is 6 and a half is ONLY attracted to men. He really could care less about women, but will go into full courtship attempts when he meets any strange guy.

I would imagine that homosexuality is completely natural and probably helps animals to survive; since those not involved in procreating can guard the flock, help care for young, gather more food, etcetera.

Answer 4

Yes, I know this is a very vague answers, but I don't know the details. There was a case of gay penguins at the zoo, who became partners and instead of laying an egg (very hard to do when you are gay penguin) they looked after a stone and pretended it was an egg.

Kind of cute, but they must have wondered why the damn thing never hatched...

Answer 5

No! They would be very confused or just smell the scent of a female on the other dog. If I had a dog that was gay he would be in the dog pound.

Answer 6

My family had a dog when I was a teenager. We got him from a shelter and named him "Billy". He used to let all the male dogs in the neighborhood hump him out in the front yard. He developed a skin diesease that made him stink like really, really awful dirty socks, a whole pile of them. The smell was so bad when he came into the room where we watched tv, he'd hear "Wheeeew Billy! You stink" and he'd lower his head and walk downstairs because he knew he was stinky. Eventually, he started laying down in intersections and wouldn't move for cars. One day someone decided not to stop.
In his honor, I named a pond after him, its called "Stinky Billy Pond" and it is in the Utah division of water rights records as the official name of that pond.
The short answer? Yes, apparently so.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

I think my dog is gay, acutally. He shows no interest in female dogs but he gets wicked excited when male dogs are around (excited as in playful, not sexually as far as I know).

Answer 9

yes some dogs are gay

Answer 10

I read about some gay penguins in a zoo awhile ago. Interesting.