Same Sex Monogamy for the Birds

Lindsay C. Young, a biologist who has studied colonies of these birds on Oahu since 2003, discovered, almost incidentally, that a third of the pairs that reside at Kaena Point consisted of two female birds. (Male and female Laysan albatrosses look basically identical.) And not only that, but many of the female-female pairs had been together for as long as 19 years — as far back as the biologists' data went. The female-female pairs had been incubating eggs together, rearing chicks and basically acting the same as their female-male pair counterparts.

From the article . . .

Various forms of same-sex sexual activity have been recorded in more than 450 different species of animals by now, from flamingos to bison to beetles to guppies to warthogs. A female koala might force another female against a tree and mount her, while throwing back her head and releasing what one scientist described as "exhalated belchlike sounds." Male Amazon River dolphins have been known to penetrate each other in the blowhole. Within most species, homosexual sex has been documented only sporadically, and there appear to be few cases of individual animals who engage in it exclusively. For more than a century, this kind of observation was usually tacked onto scientific papers as a curiosity, if it was reported at all, and not pursued as a legitimate research subject. Biologists tried to explain away what they'd seen, or dismissed it as theoretically meaningless...One primatologist speculated that the real reason two male orangutans were fellating each other was nutritional...In recent years though, more biologists have been looking objectively at same-sex sexuality in animals — approaching it as real science.

and my dog used to hump a blanket he pulled out of his dog house, wheres the science in that?

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Well, I guess I will have to go feed some of the girls I think are a little on the lean side then. I have been trying to get more feelings for my fellow people. I would like to start with the women first.

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sooo..... the Mormons have this thing all wrong?

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