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From the Animal Kingdom, a new study found instances in which 59 non-human primate species, including bonobos, chimpanzees, macaques, have taken part in same-sex behaviors.

Yeah.

Researchers are all sky in them with each other.

Repeated occurrences of the behavior in 23 species.

It was published Monday.

I don't know which one of us

as the journal Nature, Ecology, and Evolution,

but I'm going to read it all to you

because this piece is fascinating to me.

It's the most comprehensive review

of same-sex behavior in primates today.

Can I ask a question quickly?

We always assume, at least I always think about this when we talk about animals have insects. We always assume it's just two dudes. Do the girls in the, do the females in species rub the bean? We will address that. Okay. That's coming up later on. That's wonderful. Nick, you thought the same thing, too. We always just assume it's two monkeys, two dude monkeys going at it, you know?

Yeah, but short answer your question is yes. Okay. All right. So there's a lot of scissor in the animal community, too, then. Yeah, I'm not sure. They don't go into detail on how they engage. Or oatmeal heating. Well, actually. Bulldog. They do, and we'll get to that in a second, too.

The final challenge, some common assumptions about the purpose. Well, actually, they do, and we'll get to that in a second, too.

The final challenge, some common assumptions about the purpose of sex in the animal world

suggesting it plays a broader social role.

The others posit that same-sex behavior developed evolutionary to help primates in complex

social groups ease tension, reduce conflict, build bonds, accommodation to genetics, and external stress from the environment and from social systems appears to drive this behavior they conclude.

What we found is same sex is not like something bizarre, aberrant, or rare.

It's everywhere.

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