Same-sex sexual behavior is well documented in monkeys and apes, and bonobos, our closest relatives (alongside chimps) are a study in bisexuality. A whopping 50 percent or so of bonobo sexual encounters across all ages are same-sex. Female bonobos partake in same-sex genital rubbing once every two hours or so, often leading to orgasm, Stanford University biologist Joan Roughgarden writes in Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People, and an average of two thirds of their sexual encounters are with other females. Males also swing both ways, so to speak, although with less frequency. They participate in oral and manual stimulation, “rump rubbing,” “penis fencing” and even French kissing.
Bonobo society (unlike that of chimps) is female-dominated, and lesbian sex helps form coalitions against males and welcomes new members into the group. These alliances help females of the species reproduce earlier than chimps, leading to higher lifetime reproduction success. “For a female bonobo, not being a lesbian is hazardous to your fitness,” Roughgarden writes. An evolutionary advantage is harder to theorize for female Japanese macaques, which don’t seem to use gay sex to form alliances, to get parenting help, as an expression of dominance or submission, or because opposite sex partners are scarce. These monkeys may do it just for pleasure, and because they still procreate frequently, the effect on the species is neutral.
Why can't people just be what they are. Why do they need a label? This person's gay, that person's bi, that person likes to dress up in a skin suit made out of dead hookers. Just get over it already.
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OF course, Animals can be gay and a good examples of this are we Humans (Homo sapiens) who are animals of the Mammalian class. Homosexuality occurs in nearly all the animial and plant Kingdoms and in some instances---as the Earthworm---no reproduction can take place without a same sex coition involved. Oysters also can be gay but they also have the ability to change sex and reproduce. Nearly all Apes and Monkey classes engage in homosexual behaviors. Homosexuality in humans in not solely about sex--it is about loving one of the same sex just as someone else may love the opposite sex.
Now lets leave all the myths of religion out of this becaue religion does not seek truth as it claims while science does. Religion likes to cling to falsehoods in the face of truth and is adamant is doing so ---example Galileo being threatened with being burned at the stake because he told the truth--that the Sun not the Earth is the center of our solar system. Religion claims that Heaven is in the sky --we know it is not becaue we have sent Rockets to outer space. If being a gay person is so bad then why does God keep creating them and heterosexual parents having them? If one does not wish to procreate or simply not able to then why not engage in same sex relations and same sex marriages?
Being Gay is not a moral question or a matter of choice but is the way 10% of all humans are made genetically and at the molecular biological state and while I do not have percentages for the plant and animal kingdom --it is also they way that many other creatures are made. IF being gay were a choice; why would anyone want to be victimized by the anti-gay factions of this world who are so homophobic?
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Leave it to the dolphins to reinterpret the definition of "blowhole". It would be very curious to know which of these species demonstrate heterosexual "oral" (blowhole) or anal sex. It would provide much to the interpretation of what is being described in these vignettes.
"if the same animals always chose the same sex" then it would have validity for this question. for instance the deep water squid: it has the best chance to reproduce the more of it's genetic material is out there. so i would say that this is more about the law of averages then if they are gay or not.