Re: Sticky Subject- postulation about the emergence of homosexuality

"Radix2" <dyera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The archive has a bit about this
>
> http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/CB/CB403.html
>
> And I might add, that one of my friends "came out" at age 50 something
> after having 4 children, so it is true that being homosexual does not
> preclude reproduction.
>
> But I have also read how it might be a survival trait in some species.
> I'll see if I can dig out the information.

Looking for this? Google on "bonobo homosexuality".

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

Homosexual Activity Among Animals Stirs Debate
James Owen in London
for National Geographic News
July 23, 2004

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. So go the lyrics penned
by U.S. songwriter Cole Porter.

Porter, who first hit it big in the 1920s, wouldn't risk parading his
homosexuality in public. In his day "the birds and the bees" generally meant
only one thing-sex between a male and female.

But, actually, some same-sex birds do do it. So do beetles, sheep, fruit
bats, dolphins, and orangutans. Zoologists are discovering that homosexual
and bisexual activity is not unknown within the animal kingdom.

Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo
have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic pair-bonding
behavior-entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper flapping, and the
rest. They also have sex, while ignoring potential female mates.

Wild birds exhibit similar behavior. There are male ostriches that only
court their own gender, and pairs of male flamingos that mate, build nests,
and even raise foster chicks.

Filmmakers recently went in search of homosexual wild animals as part of a
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role in
the mating game. (The film, Girl Power, will be screened in the U.S this
Saturday at 8 p.m. ET, 5 p.m PT on MSNBC TV.)

The team caught female Japanese macaques engaged in intimate acts which, if
observed in humans, would be in the X-rated category.

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