Does Homosexuality occur in the animal kingdom?

Answer 1

Yes, many ...

Some examples are:

Pigeons

Swans

Penguins

Dolphins

Giraffes

Lions

Elephants

Lizards

Dragonflies
To put it simply many animals (mostly male) do conduct in acts of homosexuality, in fact homosexuality has been observed in more than 1,500 species. However these acts are generally based on dominance, bonding between the participants, or simply for sexual pleasure rather than to form any permanent relationship between the animals. However there are some species that more fully adopt homosexuality such as black swans(Cygnus atratus) where almost a quarter of the families are parented by homosexual couples. Male couples sometimes mate with a female just to have a baby. Once she lays the egg, they chase her away, hatch the egg, and raise a family on their own.

Answer 2

Yes is does in many animal species, including:

Mammals

African Buffalo

African elephant

Agile Wallaby

Amazon River Dolphin

American Bison

Antelope

Asian Elephant

Asiatic Lion

Asiatic Mouflon

Atlantic Spotted Dolphin

Australian Sea Lion

Barasingha

Barbary Sheep

Beluga

Bharal

Bighorn Sheep

Black Bear

Blackbuck

Black-footed Rock Wallaby

Black-tailed Deer

Bonnet Macaque

Bonobo

Bottlenose Dolphin

Bowhead Whale

Brazilian Guinea Pig

Bridled Dolphin

Brown Bear

Brown Capuchin

Brown Long-eared Bat

Brown Rat

Buffalo

Caribou

Cat (domestic)

Cattle (domestic)

Cheetah

Collared Peccary

Commerson's Dolphin

Common Brushtail Possum

Common Chimpanzee

Common Dolphin

Common Marmoset

Common Pipistrelle

Common Raccoon

Common Tree Shrew

Cotton-top Tamarin

Crab-eating Macaque

Crested Black Macaque

Dall's Sheep

Daubenton's Bat

Dog (domestic)

Donkey

Doria's Tree Kangaroo

Dugong

Dwarf Cavy

Dwarf Mongoose

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Elk

Euro (a subspecies of wallaroo)

European Bison

Fallow Deer

False Killer Whale

Fat-tailed Dunnart

Fin Whale

Fox

Gazelle

Gelada Baboon

Giraffe

Goat (Domestic)

Golden Monkey

Gorilla

Grant's Gazelle

Grey-headed Flying Fox

Grey Seal

Grey squirrel

Grey Whale

Grey Wolf

Grizzly Bear

Guinea Pig (Domestic)

Hamadryas Baboon

Hamster (Domestic)

Hanuman Langur

Harbor Porpoise

Harbor Seal

Himalayan Tahr

Hoary Marmot

Horse (domestic)

Human

Indian Fruit Bat

Indian Muntjac

Indian Rhinoceros

Japanese Macaque

Javelina

Kangaroo Rat

Killer Whale

Koala

Kob

Larga Seal

Least Chipmunk

Lechwe

Lesser Bushbaby

Lion

Lion-tailed Macaque

Lion Tamarin

Little Brown Bat

Livingstone's Fruit Bat

Long-eared Hedgehog

Long-footed Tree Shrew

Macaque

Markhor

Marten

Matschie's Tree Kangaroo

Moco

Mohol Galago

Moor Macaque

Moose

Mountain Goat

Mountain Tree Shrew

Mountain Zebra

Mouse (domestic)

Moustached Tamarin

Mule Deer

Musk-ox

Natterer's Bat

New Zealand Sea Lion

Nilgiri Langur

Noctule

North American Porcupine

Northern Elephant Seal

Northern Fur Seal

Northern Quoll

Olympic Marmot

Orangutan

Pacific Striped Dolphin

Patas Monkey

Pere David's Deer

Pig (Domestic)

Pig-tailed Macaque

Plains Zebra

Polar Bear

Pretty-faced Wallaby

Proboscis Monkey

Pronghorn

Przewalski's Horse

Puku

Quokka

Rabbit

Raccoon Dog

Red Deer

Red Fox

Red Kangaroo

Red-necked Wallaby

Red Squirrel

Reeves's Muntjac

Reindeer

Rhesus Macaque

Right Whale

Rock Cavy

Rodrigues Fruit Bat

Roe Deer

Rufous Bettong

Rufous-naped Tamarin

Rufous Rat Kangaroo

Saddle-back Tamarin

Savanna Baboon

Sea Otter

Serotine Bat

Sheep (Domestic)

Siamang

Sika Deer

Slender Tree Shrew

Sooty Mangabey

Sperm Whale

Spinifex Hopping Mouse

Spinner Dolphin

Spotted Hyena

Spotted Seal

Squirrel Monkey

Striped Dolphin

Stuart's Marsupial Mouse

Stumptail Macaque

Swamp Deer

Swamp Wallaby

Takhi

Talapoin

Tammar Wallaby

Tasmanian Devil

Tasmanian Rat Kangaroo

Thinhorn Sheep

Thomson's Gazelle

Tiger

Tonkean Macaque

Tucuxi

Urial

Vampire Bat

Verreaux's Sifaka

Vervet

Vicuna

Walrus

Wapiti

Warthog

Waterbuck

Water Buffalo

Weeper Capuchin

Western Grey Kangaroo

West Indian Manatee

Whiptail Wallaby

White-faced Capuchin

White-fronted Capuchin

White-handed Gibbon

White-lipped Peccary

White-tailed Deer

Wild Cavy

Wild Goat

Wisent

Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby

Yellow-toothed Cavy

Birds

Acorn Woodpecker

Adelie Penguin

American Flamingo

American Herring Gull

Anna's Hummingbird

Australian Shelduck

Aztec Parakeet

Bengalese Finch

Bank Swallow

Barn Owl

Bicolored Antbird

Black-billed Magpie

Black-crowned Night Heron

Black-headed Gull

Black-rumped Flameback

Black Stilt

Black Swan

Black-winged Stilt

Blue-backed Manakin

Blue-bellied Roller

Blue Tit

Blue-winged Teal

Brown-headed Cowbird

Budgerigar

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Calfbird

California Gull

Canada Goose

Canary-winged Parakeet

Caspian Tern

Cattle Egret

Common Chaffinch

Chicken

Chilean Flamingo

Chiloe Wigeon

Chinstrap penguin

Cliff Swallow

Common Gull

Common Murre

Common Shelduck

Crane

Dusky Moorhen

Eastern Bluebird

Egyptian Goose

Elegant Parrot

Emu

Eurasian Oystercatcher

European Jay

European Shag

Galah

Gentoo Penguin

Golden Bishop Bird

Golden Plover

Gray-breasted Jay

Gray-capped Social Weaver

Grey Heron

Great Cormorant

Greater Bird of Paradise

Greater Flamingo

Greater Rhea

Green Sandpiper

Greenshank

Greylag Goose

Griffon Vulture

Guianan Cock-of-the-Rock

Guillemot

Hammerhead (also known as Hammerkop)

Herring Gull

Hoary-headed Grebe

Hooded Warbler

House Sparrow

Humboldt Penguin

Ivory Gull

Jackdaw

Kestrel

King Penguin

Kittiwake

Laughing Gull

Laysan Albatross

Lesser Flamingo

Lesser Scaup Duck

Little Blue Heron

Little Egret

Long-tailed Hermit Hummingbird

Lory

Mallard

Masked Lovebird

Mealy Amazon Parrot

Mew Gull

Mexican Jay

Musk Duck

Mute Swan

Ocellated Antbird

Ocher-bellied Flycatcher

Orange Bishop Bird

Orange-fronted Parakeet

Ornate Lorikeet

Ostrich

Peach-faced Lovebird

Pied Flycatcher

Pied Kingfisher

Pigeon (Domestic)

Powerful Owl

Purple Swamphen

Raggiana's Bird of Paradise

Raven

Razorbill

Red-backed Shrike

Red Bishop Bird

Red-faced Lovebird

Common Redshank

Red-shouldered Widowbird

Regent Bowerbird

Ring-billed Gull

Ring Dove

Rock Dove

Roseate Tern

Rose-ringed Parakeet

Ruff

Ruffed Grouse

Sage Grouse

San Blas Jay

Sand Martin

Satin Bowerbird

Scarlet Ibis

Scottish Crossbill

Senegal Parrot

Silver Gull

Silvery Grebe

Snow Goose

Steller's Sea Eagle

Superb Lyrebird

Swallow-tailed Manakin

Tasmanian Native Hen

Tree Swallow

Trumpeter Swan

Domesticated turkey

Victoria's Riflebird

Wattled Starling

Western Gull

White-fronted Amazon Parrot

White Stork

Wood Duck

Yellow-backed Lorikeet

Yellow-rumped Cacique

Zebra Finch

Fish

Amazon molly

Bennett

Blackstripe topminnow

Bluegill Sunfish

Char

Grayling

European Bitterling

Green swordtail

Guiana leaffish

Houting Whitefish

Jewel Fish[52]

Least Darter (Microperca punctulata)

Mouthbreeding Fish

Salmon

Southern platyfish

Ten-spined stickleback

Three-spined stickleback

Answer 3

Yes, homosexuality in animals is well-documented in most species.

Here is a list of some animals in which homosexual behavior has been observed:

Mammals

• Bison
  
• Brown bear
  
• Brown rat
  
• Cavy
  
• Caribou
  
• Cat (domestic)
  
• Cattle (domestic)
  
• Chimpanzee
  
• Common dolphin
  
• Common marmoset
  
• Dog
  
• Elephant
  
• Fox
  
• Giraffe
  
• Goat
  
• Horse (domestic)
  
• Human
  
• Koala
  
• Lion
  
• Orca
  
• Raccoon
  

Birds

• Barn owl
  
• Chicken
  
• Common gull
  
• Emu
  
• House sparrow
  
• Kestrel
  
• King penguin
  
• Mallard
  
• Ostrich
  
• Raven
  
• Rock dove
  
• Seagull
  

Fish

• Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus)
  
• Amazon molly
  
• Blackstripe topminnow
  
• Bluegill sunfish
  
• Char
  
• Grayling
  
• European bitterling
  
• Green swordtail
  
• Guiana leaffish
  
• Houting whitefish
  
• Jewel fish
  
• Least darter (Microperca punctulata)
  
• Mouthbreeding fish
  
• Salmon
  

Reptiles

• Anole
  
• Bearded dragon
  
• Blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cepediana)
  
• Broad-headed skink
  
• Checkered whiptail lizard
  
• Chihuahuan spotted whiptail lizard
  
• Common ameiva
  
• Common garter snake
  
• Cuban green anole
  
• Desert grassland whiptail lizard
  
• Desert tortoise
  
• Fence lizard
  
• Five-lined skink
  
• Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda)
  
• Gopher (pine) snake
  
• Green anole
  
• Inagua curlytail lizard
  
• Jamaican giant anole
  
• Laredo striped whiptail lizard
  
• Largehead anole
  
• Mourning gecko
  
• Plateau striped whiptail lizard
  
• Red diamond rattlesnake
  
• Red-tailed skink
  
• Side-blotched lizard
  
• Speckled rattlesnake
  
• Water moccasin
  
• Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
  
• Western banded gecko
  
• Whiptail lizard
  
• Wood turtle
  
• Amphibians
  
• Appalachian woodland salamander
  
• Black-spotted frog
  
• Mountain dusky salamander
  
• Tengger desert toad
  

Insects

• Alfalfa weevil
  
• Australian parasitic wasp
  
• Bean weevil
  
• Bedbug and other bug
  
• Blister beetle
  
• Blowfly
  
• Broadwinged damselfly
  
• Cabbage (small) white (butterfly)
  
• Checkerspot butterfly
  
• Club-tailed dragonfly
  
• Cockroach
  
• Common skimmer dragonfly
  
• Creeping water bug
  
• Cutworm
  
• Digger bee
  
• Dragonfly
  
• Eastern giant ichneumon wasp
  
• Eucalyptus longhorned borer
  
• Field cricket
  
• Flour beetle
  
• Fruit fly
  
• Glasswing butterfly
  
• Hypoponera opacior ant
  
• Grape berry moth
  
• Grape borer
  
• Green lacewing
  
• Hen flea
  
• House fly
  
• Ichneumon wasp
  
• Japanese scarab beetle
  
• Larch bud moth
  
• Large milkweed bug
  
• Large white
  
• Long-legged fly
  
• Mazarine blue
  
• Mexican white (butterfly)
  
• Midge
  
• Migratory locust
  
• Monarch butterfly
  
• Narrow-winged damselfly
  
• Parsnip leaf miner
  
• Pomace fly
  
• Queen butterfly
  
• Red ant
  
• Red flour beetle
  
• Reindeer warble fly (Hypoderma tarandi)
  
• Rose chafer
  
• Rove beetle
  
• Scarab beetle (melolonthine)
  
• Screwworm fly
  
• Silkworm moth
  
• Southeastern blueberry bee
  
• Southern green stink bug
  
• Southern masked chafer
  
• Southern one-year canegrub
  
• Spreadwinged damselfly
  
• Spruce budworm moth
  
• Stable fly
  
• Stag beetle
  
• Tsetse fly
  
• Water boatman bug
  
• Water strider
  

Other invertebrates

• Blood-fluke
  
• Box crab
  
• Harvest spider
  
• Hawaiian orb-weaver (spider)
  
• Incirrate octopus
  
• Jumping Spiders
  
• Mite
  
• Spiny-headed worm
  

In the Central Park Zoo in New York City, two male penguins were well-known for having a long-lasting and monogamous homosexual relationship that only ended in 2005 after one male penguin left the other for a female. Zookeepers reported the deserted penguin as "distraught," avoiding food and social contact with other penguins for an extended period after the "break."

In Bonobo monkeys, not only is homosexuality well-documented, but also paraphilias such as urolagnia and bondage.

Lesbian seagulls ( have been recorded, particularly off the coast of Santa Barbera in the United States, where researchers say that up to 16 percent of the flock exhibits interest in the same sex. Most of the members of the animal kingdom have been known to have relations with members of the same sex at any time.

Answer 4

Yes, many species of animals exhibit homosexual behavior.

Answer 5

Homosexual behavior has been observed in most of the animals on earth.