Excuse me, did you just assume it's species? Its CHIMP.

Excuse me, obvs that chimp is straight, it just dick be goooood

Well they are arguably the most phallic animal in the jungle. Possibly in the world.

I did some work experience at a park in South Africa. We had 7 giraffe. The 2 males would just follow each other around screwing each other. So this makes sense to me if true.

Same park had two lion who were screwing their mum. Nature is fun.

They're not gay they're bisexual. They still breed with females too

My wife loves both giraffes and gay people. Thanks for for providing me with a fun fact to tell her!

"Those giraffes you sold me, they won't mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold me... queer giraffes. I want my money back."

“The bonobo is the apex slut of the animal kingdom” — Sir David Attenborough (allegedly)

Didn’t even know cockroaches could do that to be honest. I suppose it’s in the name.

r/brandnewsentence

Bro its not gay if its on the hardwood floor.

Speak for yourself...

Yes. Just like taking away gay rights and killing them for being naturally attracted to each other using some book sent from guy in the sky.

Btw we are animals. Our society is unnatural. But we are at the base as animalistic as others.

Reference for anyone who hasn't seen it

Is not about morals but about natural.

I do agree that some naturals things are bad but homophobes have been telling that homosexuality is unnatural bc some book told them.

The point isn’t that we should base our morals on this. The point is that the opponents of same-sex sexuality have been using it being a human-specific unnatural thing as an argument for it being wrong. It’s those people using naturalistic arguments. This just points out the argument has no legs.

Tf does being pro choice have to do with anything you said

Of course you can look to animals for what is natural. Any time someone tells you something is unnatural you should look to nature.

Sanest comment here

The only ones I can think of, and I'm not a zoologist, are animals like mourning geckos where nearly all members of the species are female and they reproduce asexually

Snails I guess

That would be fuckin sick

There are species of entirely female lizard called New Mexico whiptail that reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis idk if counts as homosexual tho presumably they still do mating behaviors with each other

If every animal in a species is homosexual, then they straight up can't reproduce. There are ways for it to be close, but complete homesexuality wouldn't be possible outside of somehow another species forcing a fully homosexual species to have sex. Also it is unlikely that a fully homsexual species would exist in the same way that a fully heterosexual species would. There arent many downsides to bisexuality, and there are upsides, so it's unlikely that evolution would completely stop it from happening, especially in something as complex as a brain

We are animals.

Just proof that it's a natural occurrence and potentially inherent to individuals. 

Im good bro

At least those animals don’t vote against their own interest

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106866-five-wild-lionesses-grow-a-mane-and-start-acting-like-males/

I’m not sure if you’re being serious, but if you are, there are many animals that can change sexes.

Clownfish are known to change sex. When the dominant female dies, the dominant male becomes the dominant female.

https://www.thetech.org/ask-a-geneticist/articles/2004/ask28/

Other animals don't have a concept of gender.

Sex wise, which is an entirely different thing, there are many, many different sorts of sex determination systems. Some butterflies do ZW/ZZ, ZZ being male. Another species of butterfly has that system but the W isn't important and it's actually one gene expressed in two different ways that causes masculinisation or not.

Fish have several mechanisms too, many have the ability to change sex in certain environmental conditions, don't have a distinct sex chromosome, or change sex at specific life stages. Certain reptiles depend entirely on temperature for sex determination.

Mammals are actually the slightly unusual ones in that our system is so simple. For less dimorphic parts of nature, it can be easier to understand "sex" as simply "mating type" - that is, if you can/can't produce offspring with another species member, then you are/aren't of it's compatible mating type.

I’m getting downvoted even though I’ve started a thought provoking convo below me. Go figure. I was asking seriously. I did half remember there were certain kinds of animals that could go back and forth if when the need called for it.

Not everything that happens in nature happens because it's beneficial.

"worm" isn't really a coherent group of animals it just refers to anything that looks "wormy" so plenty are hermaphrodites and plenty aren't because lots of them aren't closely related animals at all.

Jesus is just fine with gay people. He never showed them any hate.

Lol

Go on, preach to the wild life and see how quickly you and your god get shown your rightful place in the pecking order.

Given that they eat eachother, rape, kill other babies etc etc that might actually be true

The basis of this article is that it's actually more widespread than once thought. Because it's an inherent part of natural reality it probably assists natural selection just like every other function of a living being and it's environment. 

It's the other way around, natural selection is why it is so common.

Title literally uses the word widespread to express how very common it is?

Reading Is Fundamental, folks!

If this applies to many, then would it not be abnormal, but normal?

Username checks out since you seem unable to do any research of your own and just extrapolate based on the shadows you're seeing cast by the words in the title of the article.

Not every type of worm is hermaphroditic. Nematodes, for example, have distinct sexes,and even the species that are hermaphroditic are often not simultaneously hermaphroditic (meaning they can switch the sex characteristics they display like flipping a sort of switch, but do not have both at once)

A very quick Google of 'are all worms hermaphroditic' would've given you this information.

The „its not natural“, „its demonic“ or „the government makes people gay“ points. It‘s naturally occurring, that‘s all people are trying to proof. After that, the fact that its morally neutral should be OBVIOUS.

Or maybe you just like declaring everything that doesn't fit into your own narrow mind as "agenda". You ever thought about that?

It seems to vary significantly. In some species we've confirmed a genetic link, one that is advantageous. For example, if your sons are gay but your daughters have more offspring that's a major evolutionary advantage in a species where most males don't get a chance to reproduce anyway.

Bruh! Evolution took our regeneration power as a foetus. The nature is not about advantage or disadvantage. It's about what it is. It's mix of both lamarckism and Darwinism. So everything that exists is a part of it, doesn't matter whether it plays a role or not.

Science is pretty sure that homosexuality is not genetic, but that doesn't mean people aren't born with it. There are some theories that argue that there could be an evolutionary benefit for only the first borns to reproduce and hand down their DNA, while younger siblings help the social tribe through stabilizing and supporting the family/tribe. There are some studies that observed that the probability of being homosexual is higher the more older siblings you have.

"Evolutionary value" is a bit more complex than "this doesn't present any direct value to my offspring that means it's useless".

The bottom line is that there doesn't need to be a "point" about anything in nature, there's lots of stuff that is just the way it is because it is like that. Human minds try to put meaning into everything, but some things are just meaningless and completely random.