Gay Animals Guide - Killer Whales
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World's most considerate animal:
During the summer and fall, different communities of whales join together, allowing for temporarily male-only groups. Two male orcas -- although occasionally more -- playfully splash the surface of the water and make physical contact. Sometimes one male swims underwater and rubs the other whale's three-foot long penis with his beak. They swim in this position, dive into the water intertwined, then typically repeat the act with the positions reversed. Perhaps the world's most considerate animal, 90 percent of Orcas' homosexual encounters are reciprocal.
Now scientists finally have an answer to the question of whether animals can be gay.
NY Times article from 2010 says yes, too.
List of animals that can be gay: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior
3:18 PM Aug 01 2012