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Gay Animals!

Homosexual whales?

English lit classes are going to have to re-interpret Melville's Moby Dick.
 
rex said:
The world's first museum exhibit of gay animals is at the Oslo Natural History Museum. (Anyone in Norway who's going?)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3827434a4560,00.html
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I Once Read Somewhere (TM), and like to quote at the appropriate times, "There is no perversion known to Man that is not known to Monkey".

I also remember reading on the front page of a Toronto newspaper (I forget which one) in the days before computers when otherwise empty space was filled by little short news stories called "fillers" about a problem stockyards had when steers* were herded together. Apparently, the herd would mount one of their "mates" and try to have sex. A farmer was quoted as saying that it was curious the the selected one "seemed to enjoy it" and the problem was that the 500lb plus animals "could injure each other".

Why the Lord God does not forbid such peverse activities for his creatures I have never had a good answer for. :D
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*I worried about using this word, but it can apply to fully equipped male cattle.
 
I've got to wonder whether there is an actual sex act, or just that the mounting is a display of superiority. Or are the steers just getting a higher vantage point, looking for a less crowded pasture?
 
casebro said:
I've got to wonder whether there is an actual sex act, or just that the mounting is a display of superiority. Or are the steers just getting a higher vantage point, looking for a less crowded pasture?
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Ok. May be.

But look up "bulling". It's something cows do. "Lesbian" cows. :D

http://www.sheptonvet.com/cattle/lanews.htm

All the recent cases have occurred in cows that have been bulling whilst they have been waiting in slippery collecting yards. Slippery collecting yards are always are problem at this time of the year and these either require regular pressure hosing or sanding down. Maybe separating the bull/bulling cows would be an easier option.
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The official link is here: http://www.nhm.uio.no/againstnature/index_no.html . Unfortunatly, it's all in norwegian, except the title "Against nature". The norwegian title includes a questionmark.

An interesting point made in the above text is that some animals appearantly lifelong homosexual relationships. The text below the image explains how some flamingo males form permanent relationships, but aquire children by fertilizing females outside the couple. The offspring are raised by both the males and not the female. The text goes on to claim that such odd constellations sometimes results in the male producing more successfull offspring than in the more common heterosexual relationships.

I wish I was in Oslo now. This exhibition sounds interesting.
 
U.C. Davis graduate student Anne Perkins on her study of sexuality in sheep: "It is very difficult to look at the possibility of lesbian sheep because if you are a female sheep, what you do to solicit sex is to stand still. Maybe there is a female sheep out there really wanting another female, but there's just no way for us to know it."
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This gets quoted lots of places, I couldn't find an original source (but didn't try very hard, it's Sunday after all).
 
Anyone interested in the topic of homosexuality among animals (not humans) may want to pick up 'Biological Exuberance' by Bruce Bagemihl. The book was recommended to me by Richard Dawkins when I posed him some questions on homosexuality after reading 'The Selfish Gene' and 'The Extended Phenotype'.


-AH
 
A priest from my hometown in Norway said the people behind the exhibition "will burn in hell".

Another one wanted the money used for the exhibition to be used to help the animals with their "perversions".

He forgot that homosexuality is discovered in over 1500 different species.
 
Antiquehunter said:
What about the animals themselves? Are they going to hell in a handcart as well?
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I'm not sure. He didn't mention them, but if I know my local fundamentalists right, poor mr Duckie and his little friend will probably never see the other side of the pearly gates.

Anyway, doesn't animals go to hell per default? Found this:
According to the Bible, there will be no animals in heaven except for horses.
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But this was a person who used "True Christian™" about himself..
 
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