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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Homosexual Behavior More Common in Animals Than Thought Newsweek Science 18 June, 2024 | 885 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ Homosexual behavior is much more common across the animal kingdom than we first thought, new research has found. Scientists found that 78 percent of animal behavior experts had seen some degree of same-sex sexual behavior in animals during their research, according to a study published in the journal PLOS ONE. Previous research has established that homosexuality has been observed in over 1,500 species of animals from all walks of life, ranging from tiny insects to other primates. "Same-sex sexual behaviour (SSSB) occurs in most animal clades and is defined as the act of engaging in sexual behaviours, such as mounting, intromission, and genital-oral or manual-genital contact with members of the same sex," the researchers wrote in the new paper. "SSSB has been a focus of study in some primate and ungulate species
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