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anotheoldgit | 14:47 Fri 08th Feb 2013 | News
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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?
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//So the question must now be asked, how does one know if an animal is gay? //


Just look out for a reindeer called Steve chasing another reindeer called tarquin
LOL ^^
Yes AOG


Read the link I provided up the top

There are plenty of documented cases of gay behaviour in animals
Top 10 gayest animals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiT2OSAbogw
//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//

But they do this all the time as a pride always has more than one male!!
jake the peg.....yes! yes!,,what would we do without links, but AOG asks "how do you know if an animal is homosexual?"

\\The correct usage of the term homosexual is that an animal exhibits homosexual behavior, however this article conforms to the usage by modern research[9][10][11][12] applying the term homosexuality to all sexual behavior (copulation, genital stimulation, mating games and sexual display behavior) between animals of the same sex"

No jake...in simple terms for a simple ABer.......what does that paragraph mean?

It basically says that there is no difference between homosexual and heterosexual behaviour....SO....for AOG..and me....how does one differentiate the homosexual?
Very funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIcrCZQkSlg
An old dog I once had tried to copulate with peoples legs. It was catholic in its tastes.
"They're behind you!"
/it would be very unwise for any zoo keeper to put two adult male lions together/

yes ... zoos are the perfect model for judging animals' natural behaviour - I don't think

sqad

are you suggesting that animals which engage with another animal of the same gender for copulation, genital stimulation, mating games and sexual display behaviour aren't necessarily 'homosexual'

Are you basing this on personal experience?

Do you have something to tell us?
Zeuhl...;-) you are on form today....top form.
//.....perpetuating the notion that animal relationships are predominantly heterosexual...//
if we assume for a moment that homosexuality in animals is in the same proportion as in the human population, that would mean that at least 90% of animal relationships are heterosexual.

ummmmm - based on those figures, Mr Attenborough isn't perpetuating any notion, but highlighting reality - animal relationships ARE predominantly heterosexual.
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Don't they really just want sex....gayness don't come into it. Everyone normal gets sexual urges which have to be fulfilled whether its with a woman, a like minded man or even a hole in a blow up doll.

The difference in animals is they're just satisfying a natural urge unlike homosexuals who try to convince us they are performing acts of love and now with gay marriages on the scene are deluding themselves.
pdq1......your ultimate paragraph strikes home with me.

However AOG...in simple terms wants to know how you tell whether two penguins in San Diego Zoo are homosexual.
Tjhe best answer we have is from Wiki which suggests that you tell by noticing that they go through the same routine as heterosexuals.

I realise I am not the brightest bulb in the box......but.....I ask you ?
Its quite a common experience to get a friend's dog wrapping itself round your legs for sexual gratification. I wouldn't call that a gay act!
Well my bunny rabbits were completely happy to bonk anything furry with an aperture, irrespective of gender, species or close relationship. They were a happy brood.
we have a gay tortoise.
we have 2 males and one chases the other incessantly and humps the other whenever it catches him.
we used to think it was amusing watching them running and then the little squeaking noises he made, but we realised it was distressing the other so would move him to the other side of the garden - it didnt keep them apart long though

however once he looked unwell and we discovered a huge hole in his thigh that had become terribly infected - it turned out the tortoises spikey penis had gouged a hole in the other and every time he tried to hump the other, he was humping this wound... poor thing.

so they now have 2 separate 'pens' and are kept apart.
Wat *are* you on about sqad?

It's quite clear - the scope of the article classifies all mating behaviour between animals of the same sex as homosexual not simply penetrative sexual behaviour.

Birds seem particularly well documented

Roy and Silo were 2 famously gay penguins, performing mating rituals and attempting to hatch a rock. They were given an abandoned chick to "adopt " which they did sucessfully.


Similar behaviour in vultures
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/gay-vulture-couple-raise-surrogate-chicks-1110120.html

Gay swans have been known to steal nests and drive away females from eggs

Oslo Natural History museum even put on an exhibition on Gay animals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6066606.stm

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