Queer Sexuality- Myths Busted 11

(This post is a part of the series Queer Sexuality-Myths Busted. A small, not all inclusive research project i did in college. I am hereby presenting a few portions of that research work so that more and more people become aware of Queer Sexuality and start seeing it in positive light.)

Queer Animal Kingdom

There is documented evidence of  homosexual or transgender behavior of one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or parenting,They must realise that animals can have sex with who they will, when they will and without consideration to a researcher's ethical principles. Homosexual behavior is found amongst social birds and mammals, particularly the sea mammals and the primates. Animal sexual bahvior takes many different forms, even within the same species and the motivations for and implications of their behaviors have yet to be fully understood.

Bagemihl's research shows that homosexual behavior, not necessarily sex, has been observed in close to 1500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, and is well documented for 500 of them. Homosexuality in animals is seen as controversial by because it asserts the naturalness of homosexuality in humans, while others counter that it has no implications and is nonsensical to equate animal behavior to morality. Animal preference and motivation is always inferred from behavior. Thus homosexual behavior has been given a number of terms over the years. The correct usage of the term homosexual is that an animal exhibits homosexual behavior, however this article conforms to the usage by modern research applying the term homosexuality to all sexual behavior (copulation, genital stimulation, mating games and sexual display behavior) between animals of the same sex.

Some commonly known animals who display homosexual behavior are dogs, cats, cheetah, brown bear, african elephant, african lion, brown rat, dolphin, chicken, emu, penguin, grayling fish, salmon fish a wide range or insects and reptiles including lizards, cockroaches and monarch butterflies.