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Environmental Baddies 9w
Happy pride month🎉 Please share your favorite queer animal/nature facts!
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Anonymous 9w

Homosapien fact: Kissing girls is fun

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Anonymous 9w

The oldest living tortoise is bisexual

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Anonymous 9w

Some of the first animals documented engaging in same-sex behavior were beetles (cockchafer beetles, funnily enough!) This was during the 1800s. And it caused quite a moral panic in the scientific community. Because if it was natural in animals, it could theoretically be natural in humans.

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Anonymous 9w

The New Mexico whiptail lizard species consists entirely of females. They reproduce through parthenogenesis (cloning) and still engage in courtship and mounting behaviors to trigger ovulation.

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Anonymous 9w

90% of observed sexual activity in giraffes occurs between males, who engage in intimate rubbing of necks to build social bonds.

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Anonymous 9w

Thank you for this wonderful prompt!

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Anonymous 9w

One-quarter of all black swan pairings are composed of two males. These swan couples are highly monogamous, successfully building nests and raising cygnets together.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 9w

LMAO

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 9w

i love this for jonathan

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

Scientists speculated it could be a show of dominance or maybe that it was males mistaking other males for females. But they found large males that were willingly mounted by small males, and many males that maybe even preferred to mate with other males.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 9w

To add on, another really famous one was the lesbian sea gulls of Santa Barbra island. 1977 study that found that about 10% of the birds there lived in lesbian pairs and raised twice the number of eggs as the straight couples, also mated cloaca to cloaca like males do. Was very controversial and rejected by lots of people at first; ruffled some feathers 😅

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