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Friday, April 07, 2006

Gay ducks out in Sweden 

# posted by Damon @ 4/07/2006 02:27:00 PM

Published: 7th April 2006 08:45 CET

In the middle of mating season, a couple of male ducks returned to a park in southern Sweden, for the third consecutive year, ignoring the siren calls of all the lady ducks around them.

Far from the torments of bird flu and temptations of the opposite sex, the two common shelducks appear only to have eyes for each other - in a sort of ducky gay marriage.

"We can state that they act exactly like a couple (composed) of a man and woman, the bigger one always defending the smaller duck," Lennarth Blomquist, in charge of bird management in the southern city of Malmö, told the TT news agency.

"Shelducks mate for life," he said, indicating that these two ducks have found in each other the love of their lives.

The Local © The Local Europe AB 2006
News from Sweden in English

I thought they would give a little more detail as to why they consider these two to be gay life partners. If this were investigated and published widely wouldn't it really affect some people's ideas about homosexuals and "the cause" of homosexuality? But it is reported so casually, are there plenty of other examples of non human homosexuals? Or is it only in far left Sweden?

5 comments

Ahhh, but this isn't the first report of this kind I've heard about. Theres a hypothesis that claims that synthetic chemicals and hormones are causeing this odd behavior. Its already been proven that the increase in estrogenese in water (thru birth control use in the last century) has caused some male fish species to start growing ovaries. These high doses of environmental contaminants have made animals indifferent to their mates, gay, or just really screwed up. There are literally hundreds of THOUSANDS of synthetic chemicals out there and we have no idea how they are affecting us, or wildlife. For a read on the subject lookup, "Our Stolen Future". It was an ok read.

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, April 07, 2006 3:20:00 PM  

You monkeys, you should know that there are other monkeys out there that engage in homosexual sex. Man sex, hmm... shit, Brokeback Mountain went on sale the other day, didn't it? Hot male sex, hmm....

By  sadielady, at Friday, April 07, 2006 3:52:00 PM  

oops, that didn't link up. here's what i meant to link to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo

By  sadielady, at Friday, April 07, 2006 3:54:00 PM  

Yup, monkeys are horny little bastards alright. Thats an interesting species, i've heard about them before. Well you know, its like the article says..."When Bonobos come upon a new food source or feeding ground, the increased excitment will usually lead to communal sexual activity, assumedly decreasing tension and allowing for peaceful feeding."

You've got to calm down some how!

By  Brancibeer, at Friday, April 07, 2006 4:19:00 PM  

help me decrease my tension and calm down some, branci - - surely you can think of a way!

By  sadielady, at Friday, April 07, 2006 5:20:00 PM  

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