Gay Animals Where Are They?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/academic-takes-swipe-at-david-attenborough-wildlife-documentaries-for-ignoring-gay-animals-8487212.html

One just couldn't make this up, after all the controversy over gay marriages, some academics are taking a swipe at David Attenborough for not featuring enough gay animals in his TV programmes.

/// Dr Mills who carried out the study said: 'The central role in documentary stories of pairing, mating and raising offspring commonly rests on assumptions of heterosexuality within the animal kingdom.' ///

I wonder if Dr Mills knows how all those little baby creatures come into the world?

Or would he rather adults and children, not delight in the propagation of these sometimes these cute baby animals, and move Attenborugh's programme to after the 'watershed', so that we do not fail to witness the life style of gay animals?

[friedgreentomato]

There are gay penguins in San Diego Zoo and Berlin zoo.

[DTCwordfan]

So is somebody who is anti gay penguins, "Sphenisciformophobic" then....?

[Bazile]

You couldn't make it up , could you

[jake-the-peg]

here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior

[FredPuli43]

Quite, aog. The programmes concentrate on the reproduction of animals, not their non-reproductive social life. There are time limits. And, anyway, the programmes are to be sold to the American and some less enlightened markets than ours.

[Zeuhl]

I'd be interested in any explanation as to why documentary scenes of animals' 'gay behaviour' would have to

/move ... to after the 'watershed/

when similarly presented scenes of heterosexual /propagation/ were not.

[joko]

the notion of gay animals is not new and apparently has been studied and documented.

[Sqad]

\\\The programmes concentrate on the reproduction of animals, not their non-reproductive social life.\\

Don't you mean "non reproductive sexual life?"

I feel that his programs do indeed portray the non reproductive social lives.

If we assume "gay animals" as suggested by our learned biologist, how does this fit in with Darwinian Evolution and why don't the "gay species" disappear?

is it because they are NOT gay but bisexual.........sometimes gay sometimes heterosexual.

I have never understood the function of homosexuality either in the "Origin of the Species"or indeed the future of the species.

Perhaps there is no function......pointless.

[Zeuhl]

sqad lol

Most heterosexual intercourse doesn't cause procreation either - thank goodness

YOU wouldn't call it pointless though, would you? :-)

[Bazile]

Sqad

//If we assume "gay animals" as suggested by our learned biologist, how does this fit in with Darwinian Evolution and why don't the "gay species" disappear?//

Are there any soley gay species ?

[Sqad]

Bazile......I don't know.......but by my reckoning .......there can't be.

The only "true" gay animal is the human gay..............if that is what you believe.

[Sqad]

Zeuhl.....LOL....no I wouldn't, but procreation IS an alternative as it would appear difficult to be in the "true gay."

[Bazile]

That's my point Squad - there cant be a gay species - to dissapear as you asked

[Sqad]

Bazile.........quite, but you try telling that to a "human gay."

[anotheoldgit]

I can not ever remember animals walking side by side kissing hugging, or even walking paw in paw, or even hoof in hoof, together.

And it would be very unwise for any zoo keeper to put two adult male lions together, no matter how friendly they seemed to each other.

So the question must now be asked, how does one know if an animal is gay?

[ummmm]

They do rudies, AOG.

[dustypuss]

What do you call a gay dinosaur?
Mega-sore-ass

:-)

[Mick-Talbot]

I think Mr Attenborough should also cover etiquette.
Lots of animals go through some sort of mating ritual, but why do Baboons just seem to jump on without even asking.

I've been pondering over this for years.