Hey there, friends, and welcome to episode 24 of Just the Zoo of Us.

In this week's episode, we are celebrating Pride Month by bringing you a different type of review,

because our guests are treating us to a series of acts on gay animals.

We discuss manatee wuzzles, elephant matriarchy, giraffes necking in more ways than one, eagle throuples, the impact of prejudice on science, and so much more.

This episode is a celebration of love, family, and community in, as our guest puts it, the animal queendom.

Since a lot of this episode is about the diversity

of sexual behavior in animals, naturally, it does contain more discussion of sex than most of

our episodes, including behaviors that aren't just motivated by reproduction. These discussions

are not graphic or explicit, but it is a focal point of the

conversation. So I do encourage any young listeners to please check in with your adults before

listening. This is a topic that means a lot to me. It is really close to my heart, and I'm very

excited to share it with you. Just the Zoo of Us presents a gay animal review with Owen Ever and Lane Kaplan Levinson. Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. This is Ellen Weatherford with Just the Zoo of Us, your favorite animal review podcast, where this week, that review is being spelled a little differently because we're doing a different type of review this week. I'm really excited to bring a show of sorts about some really cool animals I'm

excited to talk about. This week, I have new friends. This is Owen Ever and Lane, Kaplan Levinson.

Owen and Lane, can you please say hi? Hi. Hi. So happy to be here. I am so excited to talk to y'all.

Owen, what are your pronouns?

My pronouns are they, he, he, they?

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And, Lane, what are your pronouns?

My pronouns are they, them.

Thank you so much.

Before we talk about our amazing animals for this week,

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