Can animals be gay? It’s a common question. Some people want animal sexual behavior to help them decide what’s “natural” when it comes to sex and attraction.

Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, from insects to fish to reptiles, birds and mammals. It's particularly common among primates, observed in at least 51 ...

Surprisingly, same-sex behavior does not hinder reproductive outcomes; in fact, ... She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of climate change extensively.

Evolutionary scientists have been thinking about same-sex sexual behavior all wrong. That's the implication of a new study on same-sex behavior in animals. Instead of asking why animals engage in ...

Same-sex behavior in this species may not be aberrant, but instead can arise as an alternative reproductive strategy." The UCR Academic Senate funded the one-year study. RELATED TOPICS ...

Rapid changes in Arctic temperatures are influencing animal reproductive behavior. A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist published a study in the current edition of Science magazine, building ...

Many social behaviors of animals are adaptive, meaning that being social ultimately increases an animal’s fitness — its lifetime reproductive success. One example of how social behavior is ...

Across the animal kingdom, same-sex behavior is widespread. In female-dominated species like bonobos, for instance, same-sex matings are at least as common as between-sex matings.

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

This blog post addresses behavior across all animal species. ... In fact, if you look at survival and its importance in evolution, one of the main purposes of survival is reproduction.

Alternatively, the practice may perpetuate because it has a “neutral” effect, neither harming nor helping the lifetime reproductive success of the animal. Egg-eating may simply be a behavior ...