Book about gay animals
Humans aren't the only ones having gay sex in the bushes.
Strap on your binoculars and lace up your boots: A Field Guide to Gay Animals explores sexuality, gender, and noun in the animal world.
Hosts Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson take you on a quest to see beyond the natural world as we know it and into the natural world as it is: queer as f*ck.
Homosexuality has been documented in over 1, species of animals. From gay geese and bisexual bison to lesbian elephant desire affairs and all-male, all-whale orgies, expressions of same-sex move in the animal queendom are all around us.
Owen and Laine are your intrepid guides to investigate this variety of animal behaviours, exploring the depths of the ocean, the heart of the forest, and the bushes in your backyard, to dive deep into nuanced conversations about queerness in the animal world.
Cheeky and contemplative, curious and raunchy, Field Guide shows you the natural world is more exuberant, more joyful, and more gay than you could possibly imagine.
Official selection of the Tribeca Audio Festival.
Once shunned as a subject unfit for science, same-sex behavior among animals—documented in more than 1, species—is generating an explosion of new research A pair of bottlenose dolphins touch beaks and pectoral fins in Dolphin Cay on the Bahamas’ Paradise Island. (Photo by Stephen Frink/The Image Bank/Getty Images) MAX WAS DISTRAUGHT. The year-old chimpanzee had been threatened and chased by a dominant female at Zambia’s Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage. Now he was agitated: baring his teeth, screaming, turning from one companion to the next. “He was just not in a good place, bless him,” says Jake Brooker, the primatologist who observed the scene in Nearby chimps offered comfort to Max. But his distress persisted. Then another adult male, year-old David, approached from the side. His mouth was agape. His eyes were fixed on Max’s groin. Brooker, then a Ph.D. learner and now a postdoctoral research associate at England’s Durham University One of our readers alerted us to Katherine Applegate’s latest book, as it seemed to her to feature a lesbian relationship. Odder, picturing a beyond-cute protagonist on the cover, is a novel-in-verse about a female sea otter who was born with an extra “spark”: a questing spirit, a taste for adventure. After a storm separates her from her mother, she’s rescued by humans of the Monterrey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Research and Conservation Program. (Odder can’t identify the place and the program, but the author does that in her afterword). The humans complete her absent mother’s training as best they can before returning the adventuresome pup to the sea. There she meets and bonds with Kiari, an older-and-wiser otter who appreciates Odder’s exuberant spirit but warns against its excesses. Kiari’s warnings don’t prevent her friend’s near-fatal encounter with a shark. Fortunately, Monterrey Bay Aquarium comes to the rescue again, but this moment the humans judge, after rehab, that Odder can no longer survive in the wild
A Field Guide
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Instinctive World of Animal Sexuality
Homosexuality went from fully legal throughout Europe in to a death-penalty offense in most countries by , all because doing so was politically useful when conformity was the rule of the day.
In the midst of this thirteenth-century crackdown, Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and priest, argued for the unnaturalness of homosexuality precisely because it didn't occur between animals.
Intro: Penguins
Edinburgh Zoo got penguins in Andrew, Bertha, Caroline, Dora, and Eric. Quickly, 'cheating' began. And Andrew needed to be renamed Ann. Bertha became Bertrand, Caroline became Charles and Eric became Erica. They had gotten it right with only one penguin, Same-Sex Behavior Among Animals Isn’t New. Science Is Finally Catching Up.
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