same sex behavior

When you think of gay animals, you might come up with images from the infamous banned (and adorable) children’s book And Tango Makes Three about the two male penguins who raised a chick together. Or you might think of orgy-prone dolphins, or maybe Bonobos, whose species is fully bisexual.

But do you think about frogs, giraffes, bison, fruit flies, ducks, worms—and just about every species alive?

Same-sex behavior in animals, a new study published in the June 16 issue of Trends in Ecology and Evolution claims, is so common and present in almost all species, that it’s “nearly universal.”

Read more >