10 animals with different sexual orientations Bashny.Net

In the animal world, homosexuality - is quite common, especially among herd animals. It is estimated that about 1,500 species of animals, ranging from mammals to crabs and worms, have sex with the same sex. In fact, this number is much higher just because other animals are not well understood.

Here are 10 wildlife species that are known for their sexual orientation.

1. Elephants



An example of a different sexual orientation have become elephants African elephant Niño, who lived in a Polish zoo. Niño preferred the company of males and ignored, if not terrorized females, beating their trunk.
In the wild, male elephants live apart from the common herd and form relationships, which include sex, where they climb on each other, exchanging kisses and intertwined trunks.
2. Penguins


Homosexual behavior is also not uncommon among the penguins. For example, banded penguin Wendell and Cass many years lived peacefully together in New York "Aquarium" in Brooklyn, while in 2002, genetic tests have not confirmed that they were males. The couple met when they were 3-4 years old, and together they lived 7 years, until he died Cass.

Another famous couple became Roy and Saylou living in the Central Park Zoo in New York. For a long time they wanted to raise offspring and incubating the stones until they are planted eggs of other penguins. In the five years of marriage, the pair raised PENGUIN-female, and then went to the other Saylou.

3. Dolphins


In many species, homosexuality is not only common, but also the norm. For example, male dolphins form a pair of representatives of their gender and care about each other. Such care includes sexual relations and occasional underwater orgy. They mate with the females, but only during the breeding season.

4. Hyenas


When it comes to the matriarchal society in the animal world, the sexual behavior of females often puzzling researchers. For example, female hyenas long time scientists injected misleading because their sexual organ was like a penis and they were regarded as "transsexual».

At hyenas often those representatives who have been exposed to more testosterone, are becoming more attractive. Often it is the female hyenas are larger and more aggressive than the males. However, they often exhibit traditional masculine traits and have sex with each other.

5. Gray whale


Gray whales - one of the largest in the animal world of nomads, traveling in small flocks of up to 20 000 km per year. They also differ in homosexual and can participate in a kind of orgy of 5 males. They rolled, spraying water and rub against each other bellies, so to touch their genitals.

6. Swans


Swans are birds of the family Anatidae. About 20 percent of swans consist of a homosexual couple and almost 25 per cent of all families the parents are members of the same sex. Often distilled his homosexual couples and heterosexual relatives take laid eggs.

7. Macaques


Both males and females macaques engaged in homosexual intercourse. The female macaques form strong ties with each other and are usually monogamous. During the breeding season, they often enter into non-traditional relationships. During genital fondling they express their pleasure cackling sounds. In male homosexual contacts are usually "sex for one night».

8. Bonobos


One of our closest relatives, bonobos bonobos are not alien to sexual pleasure. Almost all the bonobos are bisexual and often resolve conflicts, following the principle of "make love, not war." They are often paired, while expressing his pleasure with loud cries, and enter into homosexual relationships. About two-thirds of females also have sex with representatives of your gender.

9. Guiana cock rock


Rock males living in Guyana in South America, different bright appearance with an attractive orange plumage. Perhaps a few of us are familiar with this bird, but even fewer people realize that almost 40 percent of males engaged in homosexual activity, and a small percentage of the rocky males never mate with females.

10. mealworm


Male-kind mealworm beetle acts based on their instincts and what he thinks is right at the moment. There is evidence that these beetles come into homosexual to practice pairing and get rid of the old sperm.