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Dennis Bergendorf on 1,500 animal species practice homosexuality

6/9/2009 9:33:26 AM #

Dennis Bergendorf

Yes, and nearly 100% of animals with mate with their own offspring. Many species eat their young.

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isa kocher on 1,500 animal species practice homosexuality

7/5/2009 8:31:05 PM #

isa kocher

Parents virtually never mate with their offspring. Some species of mammals may eat the young of others. Never their own. Most species do not eat the young of their own species. Whoever made the statement that they do is simply not well informed. Human serial killers do eat their co-specific victims though. Not something any other animal does that I know of.

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Animals practice homosexuality

8/17/2009 4:21:45 AM #

ashley

My cat had kittens 3 months ago and her son is already trying to mate with her. I also had brother and sister cats that tried to mate when they were like 5 months old before I got them fixed. My ferret poops in my shower. Animals do all kinds of weird things. People make choices.

ashley United States | Reply

C'mon now...

11/8/2009 4:14:22 AM #

John Thompson

Yes, humans make choices, but who you are attracted to is NOT one of them.  As a heterosexeual male, I have never been attracted to a man.  I hate that religious fanatics honestly believe that gay people CHOOSE to be gay.  It just doesn't make sense.  

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We are all weird!

3/11/2010 8:11:58 PM #

Ileonna Matthews

True, animals do all sorts of weird things, but so do humans. The only reason that we believe that animals do weird things is because us, as humans, don't actually do the same things ourselves.

Ileonna Matthews United States | Reply

I have witnessed John Thompson's statements as fact.

12/3/2009 9:49:58 PM #

Jeff

Currently the cat sleeping on my bed is the daughter and sister of a cat that has since disappeared. There are two cat's next door who are inbred. When I had siberian hamsters as a child, they had babies. If I didn't remove the male before they gave birth the male absolutely would eat the young. In nature the male would not have remained present through it's pregnancy. Later one of the 3 siblings got it's leg caught in the wheel and damaged itself. The next day the other brothers ate him. All that was left was blood. Soon after for no apparent reason, another gets eaten. And then eventually the sole survivor died. Tell me that didn't happen why don't you?
Oh and for the record, those hamsters were inbred also. 4th generation spawned from a combination between a female of the 2nd generation and a male from the third.  

Jeff United States | Reply

Umm...do you think all of these additional behaviors might have occured

12/5/2009 12:03:37 PM #

Valerie

Umm...do you think all of these additional behaviors might have occured because they were inbred in the first place?

Valerie United States | Reply

In nature...?

1/4/2010 1:38:37 AM #

John Edwards

It's a behavior that occurs among almost all domestic hamsters. In the natural habitat, the male hamster will rut, then leave. The eating of the offspring/litter mates by the parent and each other is likely created by forced proximity in an artificial environment.

BTW, anyone who's read a book on the hamsters they are raising would know that scenario would play out. Breeding animals in captivity without even basic research before hand is reprehensible. Jeff should be ashamed.

John Edwards United States | Reply

Jeff's parent's should be ashamed

3/12/2010 12:59:28 AM #

Jeff

I was only 8 years old, and they weren't my responsibility. I did state "had as a child" but should have phrased it, witnessed my Mom's hamsters... Either way, what place do you have judging anyone? But I'll leave it up to you to decide which way you feel about your behavior.

Jeff United States | Reply

In nature...?

1/4/2010 1:32:11 AM #

John Edwards

Domestication is not the natural state for most animals. If you could find me significant examples of incest occurring in the natural habitat of Siberian hamsters, or incest between large cats, then this might hold some water.

John Edwards United States | Reply

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