Gay elephants

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There are still people out there who think that being gay is “unnatural,” but they couldn’t be more wrong. Learn why a phenomenon so abundant is so often dismissed and forgotten. Owen and Laine take a refreshing dip into the lives of gay marine mammals, and the liberatory lessons we can learn from our Queer undersea kin.

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Gay elephants have been observed 'engaging in same-sex bonding' and 'mounting' by wildlife officers in Colombo, Sri Lanka. From gay geese and bisexual bison to lesbian elephant love affairs and all-male, all-whale orgies, expressions of same-sex action in the natural world are all around us.

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I agree to receive a weekly email from Canadaland. Unlike heterosexual relations, which are always of a fleeting nature, the relationships between males may last for. Laine and Owen talk about helping children understand elephant in themselves and in nature, and learn the story of two gay, or at least queer-coded, bulls in literature and in real life.

Read our Privacy Policy to learn more. After a Drag Queen tour of the gay animals at the zoo, Owen and Laine look deeper into the legacy of the book Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, which has been their talisman throughout this journey.

Male elephants, who often live apart from the general herd, often form "companionships", consisting of an older individual and one or sometimes two younger males with sexual behavior being an important part of the social dynamic.