are there homosexual animals? like, a gay giraffe or a lesbian dragonfly? how about bacteria?

Answer 1

Yes, there are animals who engage in homosexual activities.

As for bacteria, that would be a big fat no! Bacteria are asexual. They divide to reproduce, they don't seek a mate. Therefore, it would be impossible for them to be hetero, bi, or homosexual because they dont even have sex organs!

Answer 2

This is hysterical! I just a moment ago answered a question about "choice" in homosexuality, & commented on two male DRAGONFLYS I'd seen going at it--did they have a choice, or just decide to come "out of the closet?" What is the strange fascination with this subject, anyway? Why doesn't anyone ask if there are heterosexual giraffes or dragonflys? This is a VERY silly question--but you got a lot of good answers.

Answer 3

There are rams in the wild that engage in exclusively homosexual activity, showing no interest at all in females even during mating season. Fortunately for the species, the other rams more than make up for them (hey just like humans, I guess condoning homosexuality won't be the end of us...)

Next question... if I recall my biology right, bacteria don't have gender/sexual divisions. There is no male or female among them, so you can say either they're all homosexual or the question doesn't apply to them at all.

Answer 4

There are MANY species of animals (besides humans) in which homosexual behavior has been observed. Bacteria do not have a sexual orientation because they do no have a sex.

Answer 5

Yes, there were two male penguins at the New York Central Park Zoo named Roy and Silo that were gay. The zookeepers witnessed them mating, even saw them trying to incubate a rock, because they didn't have a real egg. And I have a friend who claims to have seen lesbian cows in Montana. There's also this one species of ape or monkey or baboon or something like that, where nearly 100% of the species is bisexual. Gay Pride!!!

Answer 6

Yup, there are animals who engage in sex with members of the same sex. I'm not sure if there are animals who exclusively do so (hence no procreation), but a lot do it under certain circumstances/environments, or just do it willy-nilly.

Read "Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex" by Olivia Judson- it's very funny and highly readable, too.

Answer 7

I don't know about insects and bacteria, but hundreds of different species of animals have been observed/documented as engaging in homosexual activity. hmmm...wonder when they "chose" to be gay? sounds like it's genetic to me!

Answer 8

of course. I know when I was a teenager I heard this thing on the news this was like in 1999 that the pittsburgh, pa zoo had a gay peguins and they had been partners for over a decade.

Answer 9

According to this story about an exhibition in Norway,

http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/10/gay_animals_come_out_in_exhibi.php

"From beetles to swans and creatures considered to have a more macho image, such as lions and sperm whales, homosexual behavior has been detected in 1,500 species."

So much for "unnatural". Just goes to show you, bigots will MAKE STUFF UP AND LIE.

Answer 10

Great Question~!..

" Just as in humans, animals often form long-term same-sex relationships. In species in which this normally occurs in heterosexual couples, that shouldn't come as a great surprise, but it does come as a surprise in species where heterosexual pair-bonds don't normally form for long if at all. This is true of bottlenose dolphins, which are not known to form heterosexual pair bonds, but which do in fact form homosexual pair bonds, including sex, and often lasting for life. "

"In animals in which "bachelor groups" form, such as bison, gazelles, antelope, sage grouse and Guinean cocks-of-the-rock, it is not uncommon for same sex pair bonds to form and last until one or the other member of the pair departs the relationship and breeds. It is also not uncommon for homosexual preference to form among members of such bachelor groups; when offered the opportunity to breed unencumbered with members of the opposite sex or the same sex, they choose the same sex.

The human pattern of bisexuality also appears in animals. In some cases, animals prefer same sex at one point in their lives, and change preference later. They may even change back and forth. In some cases, animals may seek sex with partners of either sex at random."

http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-06-10/591.asp (Gay Penguins)

But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.

This is not unusual. "There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/27/content_403550.htm (More Gay Penguins~!)





http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18825212.500.html

http://www.bidstrup.com/sodomy.htm