homosexual animal?

Question

I heard someone mention in my class that there are some animals in nature that are homosexual. They said some frogs and pinguins. can someone tell me a specific kind

Answer 1

Over 1,500 different animal species practice homosexuality.

9 out of 10 giraffe pairings occur between males, male bottlenose dolphins go through periods of being exclusively homosexual, female macaques form intense bonds with each other and are serially monogamous, & almost a quarter of black swan families are parented by homosexual couples.

There are even pairs of penguins that are gay at New York City's Central Park Zoo, the New York Aquarium, and Bremerhaven's Zoo in Germany.

Answer 2

There are hundreds of species that engage in homosexual activity. The best book I've found is Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity by Bruce Bagemihl. The wiki link below has more info on the topic. The book is very interesting and has historical illustrations as well as photographs and is approached in a scientific way.

From the wiki article:
"No species has been found in which homosexual behaviour has not been shown to exist, with the exception of species that never have sex at all, such as sea urchins and aphis. Moreover, a part of the animal kingdom is hermaphroditic, truly bisexual. For them, homosexuality is not an issue."[13]

I love this quote! I think it would be true among humans as well with further study. Current studies of homosexual parenting show that children raised by same-sex couples are comparable to those raised by opposite-sex couples in terms of their mental and physical health. From the news-medical.net article below:
Animals that live a completely homosexual life can also be found. This occurs especially among birds that will pair with one partner for life, which is the case with geese and ducks. Four to five percent of the couples are homosexual. Single females will lay eggs in a homosexual pair's nest. It has been observed that the homosexual couple are often better at raising the young than heterosexual couples.

Answer 3

The same answer I gave yesterday...
Yep. At last count over 450 different vertebrate species.
Try searching on gay animals to discover more ... the following is from one link (cited below).

Giraffes have all-male orgies. So do bottlenose dolphins, killer whales, gray whales, and West Indian manatees. Japanese macaques, on the other hand, are ardent lesbians; the females enthusiastically mount each other. Bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, are similar, except that their lesbian sexual encounters occur every two hours. Male bonobos engage in "penis fencing," which leads, surprisingly enough, to ejaculation. They also give each other genital massages.

There are also well reported cases of swans and flamingoes. Some of these life-long male pairings (flamingoes) are known to have attacked and stolen eggs form other nests and raised their own children! Now that's powerful pink parenting.


http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the...

Answer 4

some of my favorites are:

Bighorn sheep- the typical males are homosexually active, the atypical (possilby intersex) males are not, and when the females go into heat they act like males

Red Billed Black Swan-some males pair bond with each other and either mate with the same female or conquer a nest with eggs in it, more of their chicks survive into adulthood than those of opposite sex pairs

bonobo chimps-98% identical to humans, all bisexual/pansexual particularly the females, whose sexual interactions with each other make up the majority of the sex that goes on in a group of bonobos

Answer 5

Most social animals will have homosexual contact at various times or homosexual individuals.

Answer 6

All vertebrate species have shown homosexuality in nature. This means organisms with backbones like fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Answer 7

Over 450 species have been shown to exhibit homosexual behavior.

A close relative of ours that does so are the bonobos.

Answer 8

pretty much all animals except asexual ones have some documented case of homosexuality. There are more gay girraffes than straight.

Answer 9

There's TONS of examples of homosexuality in animals.

Here's one list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_homosexuality#Homosexual_behavior

That whole article is a good read and a good place to start. :)

Answer 10

go to www.logoonline.com and go to documentaries. the title is called "homosexuality in the animal kingdom".