Royal albatross hatchling born to lesbian mothers
Two nesting albatrosses successfully incubate and hatch a chick they are raising.
Photo: angela7dreams'/Flickr Sam Inder, the manager of the centre, said: "It's an unusual situation because we've had a triangle with one male and two females for the past couple of years, and obviously that hasn't been terribly conducive to getting on with a breeding programme. This year the male left the trio, but obviously not before he had mated with one of the females."
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Pair bonding is not necessarily sexual, otherwise all friendships male male, female female or male female, would be called homosexual. They are not. Unless there was a sign of the two females seeking to engage in sex it is not sexual, merely a pair bonding. SO far, the highest lesbian sexual animal (speaking on he evolution scale) are lizards, whereas males often engage in homosexual relations in nature.
If you will do a google on the other so-called "gay" couplings of penguins and vultures, you will find they went back to normal male/female couplings, yet this does not get trumpeted in the news. Many female beasts hang together and help raise each other's brood (elephants are an example), but that does not mean they celebrate the abstract sexual behaviors of humans.
Just as I got irritated when asked if my close friend and I were lesbians simply because we enjoyed each other's company, I.... More
People who can't accept facts that are laid out for them in plain English and make up phony information to contradict it out of spite.
Typical comment of yet another person imposing human sexual behavior onto animals. I have owned all kinds of household pets and farm animals over the years. When stressed or in an abnormal environment, (zoos for example) they do all kinds of peculiar things. Same-sex pairing is common for many reasons - not gayness.
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Pity you have photo of 2 x Galapagos Albatross and not the Northern Royal albatross you are trying to talk about
