Pah
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It is not my intention to discuss the moral aspects of homosexuality but to address the use of "unnatural" and "perverted". To this end - let me show a little of the data that biolgical studies have found about the incidence of homosexuality as it occurs in nature.
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Courtship in the asexual species of whiptail lizards (all female) is almost exactly the same as the sexual whiptail lizards (1)
A male-male mating or a female-female mating is identical to the male-female mating in the purple swamp hen (or pukeko, in New Zealand), Porphyrio porphyrio.(2)
Two and one half percent of Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralgus) form a polygyny of one male and two females. Of these, forty percent are termed cooperative. where the females mate with each other every six to seven hours. The alpha female and beta female mate with the male every three hours or so and every five hours or so, respectfully. (3)
By 1984, male homosexual behavior has been reported in sixty-three mammalian species.(4)
Females (ewes) of the bighorn sheep in the Banff and Kootney National Parks, Canada and the National Bison Range in Montana live apart from males except for the rutting season and holds herself apart from males except for the 3 days she is receptive. The males have been described as homosexual societies. The few males who do not participate in homosexual activity have been labeled effminate males and live with the females. The normal macho bighorn has full-fledged anal sex with other males.(5)
Additionally domesticated sheep ( from a grant from Congress) (page 139-140), Japanese macaques (page 142-148) and bonobos (page 148-150) are robustly documented. [secondary references are available]
There are about 300 documented cases of animal homosexuality.
(1) Evolutions Rainbow, Joan Roughgarden, University of California Press Berkley and Los Angles, California, 2004 page129-132. Referencing D.Crews and K. Fitzgerald, 1980, Sexual behavior in parthenogenetic lizards (Cnemidophorus).
(2) ibid page 132-134 referencing I. Jamieson and J. Craig, 1987, Male-male and female-female courtship and copulation in communally breeding birds.
(3) ibid page 134-136 referencing D. Heg and R. Van Treuren, 1998, Female-female cooperation in polygnous oystercathchers, Nature 391:687-91
(4) ibid page 137 referencing A. I. Dagg, 1984, Homosexual behavior and male-female mounting in mammals - a first survey, Mammal Rev. 14:155
(5) ibid page 138 referencing V. Geist, 1971 Mountain Sheep: A study in Behavior and Evolution, University of Chicago Press, 1984 and J. Berger, 1985 Instances of female-like behavior in a male ungulate, Anim. Behav. 33:333-335.
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As homosexuality is present and documented in a large number of species, it can hardly be argued as being "unnatural". And if iit is natural, it can hardly be called perverted.
Should there be a wish to have more details concerning some of these animals, I will answer in PM.
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Courtship in the asexual species of whiptail lizards (all female) is almost exactly the same as the sexual whiptail lizards (1)
A male-male mating or a female-female mating is identical to the male-female mating in the purple swamp hen (or pukeko, in New Zealand), Porphyrio porphyrio.(2)
Two and one half percent of Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralgus) form a polygyny of one male and two females. Of these, forty percent are termed cooperative. where the females mate with each other every six to seven hours. The alpha female and beta female mate with the male every three hours or so and every five hours or so, respectfully. (3)
By 1984, male homosexual behavior has been reported in sixty-three mammalian species.(4)
Females (ewes) of the bighorn sheep in the Banff and Kootney National Parks, Canada and the National Bison Range in Montana live apart from males except for the rutting season and holds herself apart from males except for the 3 days she is receptive. The males have been described as homosexual societies. The few males who do not participate in homosexual activity have been labeled effminate males and live with the females. The normal macho bighorn has full-fledged anal sex with other males.(5)
Additionally domesticated sheep ( from a grant from Congress) (page 139-140), Japanese macaques (page 142-148) and bonobos (page 148-150) are robustly documented. [secondary references are available]
There are about 300 documented cases of animal homosexuality.
(1) Evolutions Rainbow, Joan Roughgarden, University of California Press Berkley and Los Angles, California, 2004 page129-132. Referencing D.Crews and K. Fitzgerald, 1980, Sexual behavior in parthenogenetic lizards (Cnemidophorus).
(2) ibid page 132-134 referencing I. Jamieson and J. Craig, 1987, Male-male and female-female courtship and copulation in communally breeding birds.
(3) ibid page 134-136 referencing D. Heg and R. Van Treuren, 1998, Female-female cooperation in polygnous oystercathchers, Nature 391:687-91
(4) ibid page 137 referencing A. I. Dagg, 1984, Homosexual behavior and male-female mounting in mammals - a first survey, Mammal Rev. 14:155
(5) ibid page 138 referencing V. Geist, 1971 Mountain Sheep: A study in Behavior and Evolution, University of Chicago Press, 1984 and J. Berger, 1985 Instances of female-like behavior in a male ungulate, Anim. Behav. 33:333-335.
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As homosexuality is present and documented in a large number of species, it can hardly be argued as being "unnatural". And if iit is natural, it can hardly be called perverted.
Should there be a wish to have more details concerning some of these animals, I will answer in PM.
