Gay gorillas

Sign Up Sign Up. Home divider News divider World. Among free-ranging gorillas, homosexual behaviour has been observed in mountain gorillas. I agree to receive newsletters from Metro. Does homosexual behaviour exist among gorillas?

Close Overlay. News Updates Stay on top of the headlines with daily email updates. Metro Shorts. These courtship displays were the same as those seen with heterosexual interactions — and they are thought to hold equal importance for the gorillas.

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Paraglider drops bombs on festival killing 40 people including children Channel: World World 2 days ago By Katie Boyden. Read more stories Read more stories. Associate Professor Cyril Grueter, a researcher from the University of Western Australia, was observing mountain gorillas in the country when he witnessed homosexual interactions between a number of females.

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What about gorilla sexuality :

Such behaviour has been observed under certain conditions, both between females and between males. This week, a photographer with the Caters News service snapped some images of two young male gorillas‚ Aybo and Thabo, engaging in homosexual sex play.

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Kijivu a Kisumu p : The observation of same-gender sexual activity among wild animals was crucial to the early debate about gay human sex because it was evidence that such behaviour is natural and innate

Your information will be used in line with our Privacy Policy. [1][2] This is a list of animals for which there is documented evidence of homosexual behavior. Children among six people shot in city centre attack with boy, 14, arrested Channel: World World 5 days ago By Brooke Davies.

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window Channel: World World 4 days ago By Sarah Hooper. List of mammals displaying homosexual behavior Giraffes in Kenya; giraffes have been called "especially gay " for engaging in male-male sexual behavior more often than male-female (heterosexual) sex.