Does James Dobson know about the giraffes? This is hugh!

[yellowcanine]

Apparently giraffes are really “into” the gay lifestyle. Someone really needs to alert James Dobson. And see – he is right, all that giraffe gayness has resulted in less heterosexual mating among giraffes! This is hugh!

Giraffes
Further information: Giraffe#Social life and breeding habits
Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[75] In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.[76]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals#Bottlenose_dolphins

[datasuspect]

1. better lose that "lifestyle" word

you're gonna get it if anyone catches that.

[yellowcanine]

7. I claim literary license on that. It is obviously a dig at the anti-gay crowd who are fond of

using that term.

[Aristus]

2. Reminds me of the scene in 'Gladiator' between Proximo and his slave broker.

"Those giraffes you sold me...they won't mate. They just walk around...eating...and not mating. You sold me queer giraffes. I want my money back."

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. Excellent!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. I become so angered by this insistence

that gay is unnatural...It exists in nature, everywhere. Ranchers used to tell stories of bulls refusing to mount any cow or heifer, for example.

[datasuspect]

5. mounting heifers

man, that brings back memories.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

6. The last swallow...

of my daily ration of coffee is now running down my screen! I hope all the memories are pleasant ones!

[yellowcanine]

8. Male sheep are notorious.

One species in which exclusive homosexual orientation occurs, however, is that of domesticated sheep (Ovis aries).[8][9] "About 10% of rams (males) refuse to mate with ewes (females) but do readily mate with other rams."[9]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_behavior_in_animals

[Sekhmets Daughter]

10. But it's a human choice...

drives me crazy. Particularly when I think or read of yet another kid who commits suicide because of his/her homosexuality.


Rams huh? Interesting to know. Thanks.

[talkingmime]

9. Population control?

[yellowcanine]

12. Just the opposite, probably. Some biologists think that gay individuals increase the survival

potential for the offspring of siblings. In human populations it has been noted that gays and lesbians are often very attentive/doting on nieces and nephews. This has also been observed in the animal world so it makes sense that there could actually be selection pressure for a gay gene - in other words, if I pass on a gay gene to my children, the survival of my grandchildren is enhanced.

[talkingmime]

15. I'd never thought of it that way, but it makes sense all around!

[nolabear]

11. Got anything on tapirs in there?

*ahem*

[yellowcanine]

14. You just HAD to go there, didn't you?

[A Simple Game]

13. I don't know about gay, but if my neck was as long as a giraffes

my love life in my earlier years may not have been less lonely but it would have been much more active than it was.