‘Gay’ Penguin Pair Adopts a Baby Chick

[diwana]

Re: ‘Gay’ Penguin Pair Adopts a Baby Chick

@Southie

Took me 10 seconds to find this on the Internets

List of animals displaying homosexual behavior - Wikipedia

“Homosexual behavior is found amongst social birds and mammals, particularly the sea mammals and the primates.[SUP][3]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-1.2C500_Animal_Species_Practice-2)[/SUP] Animal sexual behavior 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.[SUP][5]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-4)[/SUP][SUP][6]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-Biological_Exuberance:_Animal-5)[/SUP] Homosexuality in animals is seen as controversial by social conservatives 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.[SUP][7]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-The_Animal_Homosexuality_Myth-6)[/SUP][SUP][8]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-Defending_A_Higher_Law-7)[/SUP] 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[SUP][9]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-8)[/SUP][SUP][10]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-9)[/SUP][SUP][11]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-10)[/SUP][SUP][12]](http://www.paklinks.com/gs/#cite_note-11)[/SUP] applying the term homosexuality to all sexual behavior (copulation, genital stimulation, mating games and sexual display behavior) between animals of the same sex.”

Creepy, IMO, is not the best choice to describe this complex issue, especially considering the foaming at the mouth hatred shown against this behavior in this own forum elsewhere.

I will not belabor this anymore - just chipping in per OP’s suggestion.

You cannot call these kind of isolated/rare events as evidence that animals indeed are homosexual.

Certainly not a long lasting behavior that maybe considered ‘normal’ or ‘intrinsic’ behavior.

Arguments to the contrary are present and no final conclusion can be drawn.

It has been discovered, the ‘famous homosexual penguins’ were NOT homosexual.