Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation – 25 Feb 2007 – Animal News – NZ Herald — This is odd. Note that this seems to be a function of captivity. Perhaps that is what the US Government is trying to do to us as cited in this article.
Female koalas indulge in lesbian “sex sessions”, rejecting male suitors and attempting to mate with each other, sometimes up to five at a time, according to researchers. The furry, eucalyptus-eating creatures appear to develop this tendency for same-sex liaisons when they are in captivity. In the wild, they remain heterosexual. Scientists monitoring the marsupials with digital cameras counted three homosexual interactions for every heterosexual one.
“Some females rejected the advances of males that were in their enclosures, only to become willing participants in homosexual encounters immediately after,” say the researchers. “On several occasions more than one pair of females shared the same pole, and multiple females mounted each other simultaneously. At least one multiple encounter involved five female koalas.
“One theory put forward by the researchers is that the females do it to attract males; another is that it is simply hormonal, or that it is a stress reliever.
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Eucalyptus? Extasy for Koala Bears? Hmmmm.
jeez john,,,the sexual interests of a marsupial?
i hope you can do better than that in the future..
you’re pushing me away from reading your blogs.
but then again, you may not care.i just know that you are capable of better blogs.
I think it’s a hilarious story myself…. GO easy on John.
Sex & the city, Sydney.
A huge hole has been left by the apparent consensus that this blog be declared a Britney-free zone (John finally caves here). Perhaps news of homo-koala sex can fill that void. It certainly can’t be any weirder than Britney’s adventures.
Are you feeling the pain of Britney-withdrawal yet?
“One theory put forward by the researchers is that the females do it to attract males” It has been proven that this type of behaviour also works on most males of the human species….
#1 – Pedro, you study behavior I think, so maybe you know about this. Years ago some scientists did an experiment to see adaptations to overpopulation stresses. They put some mice in a nice, roomy cage, saw to it that they always had a clean cage, fresh water and plenty of food, and let nature take its course without further interference. When populations were low, mice would cross the cage to say hello to each other (touch noses, etc). As population increased, they started claiming a space and not much leaving it but still visiting each other from time to time. Later they would fight to keep other mice from entering their space. Finally, as the population got quite dense, aside from the predictable incidence of males eating the newborns and females not fighting them away, mice were hanging from the top of the cage and literally starving rather than go into the teeming mess. One thing noted was that as density increased, the rate of homosexuality among the mice increased just as steadily. I think they were noting male homosexuality, but this story makes me wonder if that wasn’t just an assumption.
Two points:
1. Maybe homosexuality isn’t a disorder so much as a natural adaptation among higher animals to overcrowding,
2. Maybe Koalas feel overcrowded much sooner than humans or mice would, relatively speaking. They live in the trees, and just being caged might be enough to prompt the response immediately. “If we gotta live like this, who wants to be a breeder?” maybe they told each other in Koala talk.
It’d be interesting to see if the males started dressing in eucalyptus leaf gowns and congregating in koala gay bars, too. No offense intended to anyone in or out of a closet.
Maybe the male koalas just don’t seem so sexy when they’re not running wild.
Interesting… women who are isolated together in prison often turn to homosexuality too.
So then the science on this seems fairly clear. The power of Satanic temptation is magnified as animal population groups become more dense or closed.
Let’s pray for the koalas.
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I wonder if their little fuzzy faces looked like glazed doughnuts? And when will the males start burying a bone in each others back yard?
How much can a Koala bear