Why are Bonobo apes gay?
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they just like sex, doesn't matter who they get it from.
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They are two different species. Bonobos are believed to have broken away about two million years ago.\n\nBonobos are smaller than chimpanzees, and have a more humanlike frame, with square shoulders and long lean limbs. Bonobos walk upright from time to time, where chimps stick strictly to their knuckles for the most part.\n\nChimps are a more "warlike" ape, and male dominated. Bonobos have a culture heavily focused on easing tensions within the group, and they usually accomplish this via sex. Bonobos are quite promiscuous, and will engage in sexual activity for just about any reason - recreational, easing tensions, as a favour, or in celebration. Bonobos also tend to be somewhat matriarchal - the most influential apes are the females.
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Scientific studies have shown a biological basis for homosexuality.
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The general answer is that ape has a larger brain because it is a large animal compared to monkey.  There are some really small monkey species.
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As much as we do not like to admit it, we are animals. I mean it literally. Human is part of the animal kingdom on this planet. If the apes are doing it, we are doing it. \n\nMen are instinctively driven to ensure that their genes are propogated to have a higher chance of surviving, just like any animal. The more decendants, the higher the chance.\n\nNude girl is a stimulant. Propogating is prime reason.
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I'm not sure why you care. Is it for the monetary benefits they could then enjoy as a legally married couple? If it's not about money, then why make such a big deal about it? The bottom line is how two people feel about one another and not some definition of "marriage" that society chooses to make. I think I'd revere two people who were dedicated to one another who didn't need the formality of marriage as a crutch. Spend your time living life, not debating it.\n\nIn my opinion, the basis of your arguments are that you want society to accept homosexuality as a normal human condition. Unfortunately, homosexuality is not a normal human condition by definition because reproduction is necessary to preserve the species as it is with any animal on earth. It's true that 10% of the population is genetically homosexual, but so is 10% of the population deaf or blind, but that doesn't make it normal. On the other hand, skin color, nationality, culture, gender, and other potential racially related discriminant features are simply manifestations of human evolution on earth. Darwin's theory of evolution cannot support homosexuality as a normal development of mankind.
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Being homosexual is having a sexual attraction to someone of the same gender.
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We are not born with a sexual orientation,it is a learned behavior.Although I am sure homosexuals claim they can not help it,and "I was born this way" that is simply a superficial answer designed to avoid dealing with the actual root cause of their choice.I am also certain there may be a variety of reasons from plain old lust,to traumatic experiences with forced homosexual occurrence,self esteem,whatever.The point is that homosexuality is against creationism and those that adhere to God's law or position on the matter.In addition it goes against theories of evolution ,because you can not have evolution, without,procreation.My point being even apart from religious convictions,homosexuality is obviously abnormal behavior and violates creationism and evolution on the same point,inability to procreate or continue the species,whether created by God or evolved from single cell protozoan.(I personally think that evolution is the biggest bunch of nonsense ever purported by man on himself)It appears to be more evidence of mans ability to use his freedom of choice to satisfy whatever whim he or she has,and the general populations moral conviction to support that choice ,even when it is antithetical to our very existence,soley based on growing trend to manifest life as a free for all party,ever extending the boundaries in order to accommodate moral and sociological devaluation.This is the reason man is God's greatest creation and his ugliest,and in the end the most intelligent species on the planet will destroy itself.It is not a liberals movement as conservative judges of the highest courts in history as well as the liberals in all major governments have upheld mans right to defy both his creator and for those that believe the evolutionary theory.In fact it a great argument against evolution because if we are mimicking in our societies the behaviorism's of man since his evolutionary conversion,we never would have made it this far.Deprivation,debauchery,and greed would have brought our species to extinction long ago.Irregardless of your beliefs system homosexuality is wrong as it contributes only to the termination of our species.
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I have no idea..I think it's because their gay
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This is often thought of as heplful in the mating process. It gives a "target" of sorts. Kind of the same idea as baboon butts.
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Actually, ALL species of the animal kingdom engage in homosexual behavior...so yeah it IS nature intended. Christians have a problem with anything they can't control. They're also brainwashed and can't think for themselves.
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Nature tells us that homosexuality exists.  Are humans animals?  Are there homosexual humans?  Ergo...?\n\nThe fact that you have not quoted sources is of no consequence to me -- I am willing to take at face value that perhaps the cattle and lizards were setting domination patterns. I am curious as to how the motives of the lizards were determined to be "to humilate"?\n\nty kinney, of course, makes terrfic sense about the differences beetween humans and other animals and would worth be re-reading.  \n\nOf course, without any applicable citation, which would seem to be fairly easy to find, your insistence on the behavior of cattle weakens the argument, particularly when you assert such detail as "the male/male behavior documented never culminates it penetration! therefore it is not sexual in nature."  From your reaction to other posts, I assume you're after some sort of penetration?\n\nI must point out that an insistence on male/male penetration omits other non-dominance behaviors practiced by other animal species, such as courtship. \n\nTREE SWALLOWS:  Full cloacal contact has been observed by Wilson and Bull in  male Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor), complete with  the “ticking” vocalizations which are apparently reserved for  heterosexual copulations in Tree Swallows.  They also note that dominance behaior among Tree Swallows is very different.\n\nLIZARD: A. carolinensis engage in both homosexual courtship and copulation -- with one male exhibiting the male behavior in courting being the mounter and the male exhibiting the female courtship behavior being mounted. Previous studies (Noble and Bradley in 1937) dismissed this as hierarchical behavior, but more recent observations (Cooper, 1977, and Sigmund, 1987) show a more thorough understanding of A. carolinensis society, including polygamy and consistent homosexual behavior in the absence of dominant males.\n\nBISON: Courtship, mounting, and full anal penetration between bulls is common among American bison. My Lakota brothers and sisters call them pte winkte —pte =bison and winkte is the word for two-spirit, their description of the transgendered  in their Nation.\n\nFEMALE CATTLE:  Mounting of female cattle in heat by other cows is common among domesticated cattle.  (Obviously, since no marital aids have been documented, no actual penetration occured.)  The same has not been observed among wild cattle in a study by Queensland College in Australia.  Although stress was cited by the observers, they also admitted the possibility of domestication as a factor -- so perhaps civilization figures into it.\n\nBONOBOS: Barbara Fruth and Gottfried Hohmann observed same-sex genital contacts in wild female bonobos.  They have already been mentioned here, I just thought I would give the citation, even though no penetration happened.\n\nZOO ANIMALS: The penguins, koalas, rabbits and others that have been documented as exhibiting homosexual behaviors have most often come from zoos or domesticated situations.  This does not necessarily indicate a corrupted or aberrant social system, but (Occam's Razor) they can be more easily observed.\n\nHYENAS: Actually, Ploss and Bartels have seen hyenas licking each other's genitals.  Hyenas are of particular interest in this discussion because, according the Bestiary of Barnabus, hyenas were believed to have predominantly homosexual sex, and were associated with homosexuals.  This view was strongly held in the time of Augustine, who was a zealot advocate of conversion.
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For the umpteenth time:\n\nIf homosexuality is wrong, so is heterosexuality. For everyone who claims that it is a "choice," I'd ask them to recount the day when they "chose" to be straight. I know that I certainly wasn't given an option, I just knew that I liked girls. It's the same for gay people. They just know. \n\nFor those who claim that it is unnatural, I'd point to the behavior of bonobos, dogs, and penguins as just a few examples of homosexuality in nature.\n\nFor those who say that "it's against the bible," I'd say that it is time to reexamine the old myths and decide whether they really have a place in our modern world.\n\nLove is love is love.
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approximately 10% of ANY mammal species has overt homosexual tendencies, what's so unnatural about it?
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Because they are gay!
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Because they are not gay..................
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The only other option is same sex attraction...which makes one gay or bi. There are examples of same sex attraction in the animal kingdom as well.