Can animals be gay?

Depends how you define the word gay, there are many homosexual relations in the animal world, monkeys of all sorts being the most numerous to indulge in same sex sexual activities often due to the heirarchy system where only the alpha male has the right to mate with the female and the other males have to work off their sexual energy somehow.

Is just having sex between two males or two females enough to be througt gay or do you need an emotional and sentimental attaction towards the same sex?

 

I dont think animals care as much as we do but heres something to think about. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750604/

 

I read this a long time ago and thought it was really interesting:

http://seedmagazine.com/news/2006/06/the_gay_animal_kingdom.php?page=all&p=y

 

They did a study on gay sheep right here in Oregon at Oregon State University. Farmers were not happy because these rams were not making babies like they were supposed to. They were "mating" with eachother. However, the whole thing ticked off animal rights activitists. Evidently after they observed them for awhile they killed them to look at their brains. It was quite the controversy.

 

They killed them to look at their brains :eek:?!?!

That's just, wrong. What, were they expecting the sheeps' brains to be rainbow or something? I mean, just because the sheep was gay didn't mean it had some weird looking brain.

And yes. Animals can be gay. It's been observed in animals such as dolphins and dogs.

 

And those are just mammals that have been shown to part take in homosexual activity

 

Hey Malchik, what do the numbers next to the animals' names mean?

 

I think there was a TV show called "The Truth about Gay Animals"

I just forgot which channel it was on :?

Anyways, this is a pretty famous case. It's pretty cute too

http://www.gayheroes.com/penguins.htm

 

My dog seems to think she is a male dog. She has tried to 'do things' to other bitches which should only be done by male dogs...

I also have a friend with lesbian hamsters

 

Not sure, they were just next to the names on the website i took it off of lol

 

Were they source numbers from Wikipedia? >_>

 

Yeah probably, ok i wikipedia'd it i got caught, but still interesting information

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RlTAyNI8WE

 

Short answer: YES!!

As high as 25% of male great pandas are gay.

 

DUDE. My aunt's dog in Arizona is just like that. She is also the...alpha dog to her teddy bear. And guess how she urinates?

 

Humans are animals and humans can most certainly be gay, but I don't think that's what you meant.

 

Yes

Many animals in nature participate in homosexual activities -- I don't know if you want to consider that gay for an animal but it's not uncommon at all.

 

Yes there can be gay animals. Scientists are actually doing studies on dolphins now as they seem to be animals that have sex for reasons other than reproduction and there has been noted homosexual activity in them.

 

:lol: My dog cocks her leg up as well!