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Originally posted by Skyceman@Dec 27 2004, 03:35 PM
Just because a dog will hump other males when they are horny - does that mean its gay?
A dog will grab my leg, grab a piece of furniture - something/anything to enable its behavioral reactionary needs to hump. It's merely a "tool" just as the penguins same-sex partner is a tool to satisfy its instinctual behavior. Animals and humans are not the same.
One behaves instinctually while one makes a conscious choice.
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I'm not sure about that. It sounds as though the gay penguins are hooking up not just for sex but for relationships. Penguins are essentially monogomous animals--they're much more relationship based than dogs, which are essentially promiscuous. Would a gay penguin couple break up when more members of the opposite sex are added to the environment? I don't know, they'd need to do another study on that.
The significance of this study isn't in the existance of homosexual behavior in animals, it's of homosexual monogamous relationships.