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"Chzwmn" <chzwmn@aol.com> wrote in message

Take a look at this.

It will help your conscience when engaged
in typical Saturday night Welsh hill
farming activities...

A study of gay sheep appears to confirm
the controversial suggestion that there
is a biological basis for sexual preference.

The work shows that rams that prefer
male sexual partners had small but
distinct differences in a part of
the brain called the hypothalamus...

Homosexuality is biological,
suggests gay sheep study
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993008

Is one of my mother's cats gay? An absence of testicles does not stop

Jamie

mounting another (neutered) male Smokey who, being smaller, is unable to
offer much resistance. According to Bagemihl, homosexuality has long

known in both cats and dogs but he avoids using the term "gay" with its
anthropomorphic implications. After all, Jamie cannot tell us if he

fancies Smokey, or even understands what he is doing.

http://www.galha.freeserve.co.uk/glh/191/bagemihl.html

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The scientist gasps and drops the binoculars. A notebook falls from
astonished hands. Graduate students mutter in alarm. Nobody wants to be

the

one to tell the granting agency what they're seeing.

A female ape wraps her legs around another female, "rubbing her own

clitoris

against her partner's while emitting screams of enjoyment." The

explains: It's a form of greeting behavior. Or reconciliation. Possibly
food-exchange behavior. It's certainly not sex. Not lesbian sex. Not hot
lesbian sex.

Six bighorn rams cluster, rubbing, nuzzling and mounting each other.
"Aggressosexual behavior ," the biologist explains. A way of

dominance.

A zoo penguin approaches another, bowing winsomely. The birds look

identical

and a zoogoer asks how to tell males and females apart. "We can tell by
their behavior ," a researcher explains. "Eric is courting Dora." A

arrives with news: Eric has laid an egg.

They've been keeping it from us: There are homosexual and bisexual

animals,

ranging from charismatic megafauna like mountain gorillas to cats, dogs

and

guinea pigs. There are transgendered animals, transvestite animals (who
adopt the behavior of the other gender but
don't have sex with their own), and animals who live in bisexual triads

and

quartets.

http://www.donshewey.com/1999_zine/biological_exuberance.html

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The most important book on homosexuality published in 1999 was not about

gay

men or lesbian women but about what we humans smugly call the "lesser
species".

Time magazine, which does not generally cover gay or scholarly books,
devoted a full page to Biological Exuberance; the first comprehensive

study

of homosexual and other "nonreproductive" behavior among animals.

If nothing else, Bruce Bagemihl's massive study rebuts the argument that
homosexuality is "unnatural" because "animals do not indulge in it."

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/reviews/122799re.htm
http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/031799ev.htm

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Most scientists have thus far studiously avoided the topic of widespread
homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom--sometimes in the face of
undeniable evidence. Bagemihl begins with an overview of same-sex

in animals, carefully defining courtship patterns, affectionate

sexual techniques, mating and pair-bonding, and same-sex parenting.

He firmly dispels the prevailing notion that homosexuality is uniquely

human

and only occurs in "unnatural" circumstances. As far as the
nature-versus-nurture argument--it's obviously both, he concludes. An
overview of biologists' discomfort with their own observations of animal
homosexuality over 200 years would be truly hilarious if it didn't

a

tendency of humans (and only humans) to respond with aggression and
hostility to same-sex behavior in our own species.

Scientists have sometimes been afraid to report their observations for

fear

of recrimination from a hidebound (and homophobic) academia. Scientists'

use

of anthropomorphizing vocabulary such as insulting, unfortunate, and
inappropriate to describe same-sex matings shows a decided lack of
objectivity on the part of naturalists.

Astounding as it sounds, a number of scientists have actually argued

when a female Bonobo wraps her legs around another female ... while

emitting

screams of enjoyment, this is actually "greeting" behavior, or

"appeasement"

behavior ... almost anything, it seems, besides pleasurable sexual

behavior.

Throw this book into the middle of a crowd of wildlife biologists and

watch

them scatter. But Bagemihl doesn't let the scientific community's

discomfort

deny him the opportunity to show "the love that dare not bark its name"

all its feathery, furry, toothy diversity.
The second half of this hefty tome is filled with an exhaustive array of
species that exhibit homosexuality, complete with photos and detailed
scientific illustrations of the behaviors described. Biological

is a well-researched, thoroughly scientific, and erudite look at a
purposefully neglected frontier of zoology.

Biological Exuberance:
Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
by Bruce Bagemihl
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312192398/

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They're Using Sheep to Study Gay Behaviour

When it comes to studying sexual orientation, the politically correct

for the Bush administration to do it is with sheep - not humans. So it

is,

we have learned, that the pioneering work on the potential origin of
homosexual or heterosexual behaviour is being done by the Department of
Agriculture, which has for more than four years been identifying,
separating, and studying a group of gay sheep.

n fact, the research they've been doing with the rams at a backwater

station in Dubois, Idaho, is the kind of work one normally expects out

America's premier research centre, the National Institutes of Health.
Except that the NIH can't touch these kinds of studies because some

powerful

Republican officials think it's a threat to "Family Values".

Our first report on the Agriculture Department's gay sheep studies

something of a stir in the segment of the American scientific community

that

is concerned with sexual behaviour. That's because they hadn't heard of

it

before and were anxious to compare notes with the scientists doing the

work.

The Agriculture Department had no lofty goal of settling the age-old
question of whether homosexuality is born or bred, is natural or

nurtured -

even if their work unintentionally takes a stride in that direction.

Quite simply, sheepherders had been complaining that they were losing

money

buying some $350 to $4000 rams who weren't interested in mating. The

point

was to find the organic or genetic origin of what they termed for the

sheep

trade, the "Dud Stud Phenomenon." Interestingly, in this study the
percentage of rams the Agriculture Department researchers determined

gay - some 8.5% - is close to some estimates in human society.

http://www.flatrock.org.nz/topics/animals/love_that_dare_not_squeak.htm
http://home.wxs.nl/~gkorthof/korthof62.htm
http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/

I have yet to see a cat who no matter how small, would
not find a way to resist being mounted, whether a male
or female being mounted by either, either.

What happens to boys who like boys if they are given
male hormones?