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Gay lions accused of being copycats.
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From https://www.livescience.com/60910-gay-lions-not-quite.html
Gay Lions? Not Quite
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | November 10, 2017 05:33pm ET
A wildlife photographer captured a stunning image of two male lions in Kenya's Masai Mara.
Credit: Paul Goldstein/Cover Images/Newscom
A photograph of two male lions seemingly in an amorous embrace has some humans clutching their pearls.
After the release of the photograph, taken in August at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board, blamed humans (or maybe demons) for the male-on-male mounting.
"[P]robably, they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly," Mutua told Nairobi News, before suggesting that the lions be isolated and studied because the "demonic spirits inflicting in humans seem to have now caught up with animals."
The actual story behind the photograph shows that Mutua got some things wrong. The mounting behavior isn't actually sexual. And the official jumped the gun on attributing human motivations to animal behavior, experts said. ['Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Lifestyles in the Wild].
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By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | November 10, 2017 05:33pm ET
A wildlife photographer captured a stunning image of two male lions in Kenya's Masai Mara.
Credit: Paul Goldstein/Cover Images/Newscom
A photograph of two male lions seemingly in an amorous embrace has some humans clutching their pearls.
After the release of the photograph, taken in August at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board, blamed humans (or maybe demons) for the male-on-male mounting.
"[P]robably, they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly," Mutua told Nairobi News, before suggesting that the lions be isolated and studied because the "demonic spirits inflicting in humans seem to have now caught up with animals."
The actual story behind the photograph shows that Mutua got some things wrong. The mounting behavior isn't actually sexual. And the official jumped the gun on attributing human motivations to animal behavior, experts said. ['Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Lifestyles in the Wild].
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""demonic spirits inflicting in humans seem to have now caught up with animals."
Sigh.
to some extent.
Hey, since most species are hierarchical and male dominated, the non-alpha males have to get their jollies somewhere.
