Homosexual giraffes

Giraffes Take Bisexuality to Fresh Heights

In , UK member of parliament Dawn Butler made headlines when she claimed that “ 90% of giraffes are gay ”. Butler had been arguing in support of LGBT rights and pushing back on the notion that people are “ taught to be gay ”, but once taken out of context by the press, the remark sparked debate not about human rights, but about giraffe sexuality. It turns out, Butler’s claim isn’t quite true.

For one, almost all of the documented same-sex behavior among giraffes occurs between males, so that “90%” figure is misleading (more on this later). More glaring is that it overlooks the fact that, as the UK’s Natural History Museum notes, “most giraffes will mate with the opposite sex if given the chance”. In other words, most male giraffes aren’t “gay” — they’re bi.

Much of what we know about giraffes we owe to Anne Innis Dagg , one of the first biologists to study giraffe behavior in the wild. Called “the Jane Goodall of giraffes” despite having conducted her groundbreaking research years before Goodall’s, her paper, “ The Behavior of the

A Swedish Fairy Tale About Gay Giraffes

A kindergarten in Sweden has prohibited teachers to use words that would indicate a child’s gender. Since “he” and ?€?she?€? can?€™t be used, children must be defined by the neutral gender. Completely making a mockery of both grammar and common sense, Sweden has taken political correctness to a new level of absurdity.

Almost from infancy, young Swedes begin to be educated in ?€?tolerance toward homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.?€? Schools decide books based on this worldview. For example, Snow White and Thumbelina are banned because they are ?€?full of traditional gender stereotypes.?€?

But other types of literature are free in abundance. For example, children are offered books about homosexual giraffes that hatch abandoned crocodile eggs so they can verb a shared newborn.

The word ?€?it,?€? when applied to a human being with a gender, gives a person genderless characteristics. This politically correct vocabulary not only assumes that there is no difference between man and noun, but it

Giraffes are a lot gayer than most people hand them credit for

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FACT: Natural history is super queer—just look at jousting giraffes 

By Owen Ever

Whether described as &#;ritualistic jousting&#; or a &#;stately dance,&#; there&#;s something erotic going on between male giraffes. According to the field observations of Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg, “Necking involv

Are 90% of giraffes gay – or have their loving looks been misunderstood?

A new split has emerged in the Labour party over a matter more urgent than Brexit: the sexuality of giraffes. “Ninety per cent of giraffes are gay,” Dawn Butler, the shadow secretary for women and equalities, told a PinkNews awards event earlier this month. “Let’s just accept people for who they are and live as our real, authentic selves.”

Butler’s words were meant as praise for the school curriculum, which teaches children that it is normal for people to be gay. However, Jeremy Corbyn’s senior domestic policy adviser, Lachlan Stuart, responded angrily on Twitter over what he felt it also meant about gay people. “It is a ludicrous, offensive, homophobic claim,” Stuart said, insisting instead that the same-sex physical contact observed between giraffes in the feral is “not gay behaviour” at all, but a display of dominance.

According to Stephanie Fennessy, director of the Giraffe Conservation Foundation in Namibia, Stuart is right. “While I totally agree with Dawn Butler’s comment that we should accept people