Researchers think same-sex activity could be adaptive for animals.
recently showed that same-sex attraction is far from limited to humans; lots of animals are sexually fluid, too.
They discovered that same-sex sexual activity has been recorded in 1,500 animal species, from birds to bees . “This figure is probably underestimating the actual prevalence of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals, since this behaviour has attracted the attention of behavioural ecologists and evolutionary biologists only recently,” they say ― andin 80% of the mammal population ― the more you observe the animals, it seems, the more sexually fluid they prove themselves to be.
“Same-sex sexual behaviour as it is used here does not denote sexual orientation , sexual orientation identity , categories of sexual beings , nor sexual preference,”With that said, a lot of the studies that the researchers looked at suggested homosexual activity in animals could have an adaptive role “in maintaining social relationships and mitigating conflict.”
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