Female koalas indulge in lesbian "sex sessions", rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers.
The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual.
Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.
"Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after," say the researchers.
"On several occasions more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.
"One theory put forward by the researchers is that the females do it to attract males; another is that it is simply hormonal, or that it is a stress reliever.
Maybe they are doing it for the same reason that college girls on spring break do it. To get the guys to buy them drinks.
The truth is that nature is rife with homosexual activity. And there is nothing wrong with that.
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Christian: "Don't confuse me with the facts! My mind is made up!"
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to compare activity in certain situations to activity that occurs without stress or other "inputs."
ReplyDeleteBy that, I mean that female monkeys have been known to engange in "dry humping" on each other when "not enough male monkies" are around. I am not sure what the scientists mean by "not enough," but they use those words.
The issue should be, "Who cares?" I do not think we need to justify homosexuality by "proving" it exists in other animal species.
Homosexuality exists in human behavior. What anyone does "behind closed doors" does not bother me. If people start engaging in "activity" in public, people may complain depending on what they "like" or "don't like" to watch. May have nothing to do with their sexual preferences (i.e., some people don't like to watch "porn," but that feeling does not mean they do not like sex as performed in the "porn").
Regardless if homosexuality is "rife" in nature, it exists in human society--and there is nothing wrong with that fact.