Here is the article about the albatrosses (and other animals). It's about 10 pages long.
It's called Can Animals Be Gay?, but rather than truly trying to answer that question, the article really talks about the language that scientists use (or the language that scientists skirt around) in attempting to describe animals' sexual behaviors for a human audience. I found it fascinating.
(Why title that article with such an inflammatory headline? Their main goal was to get people to read that interesting article, and if they'd titled it "scientists talk about how they portray animals in same-sex couples in scientific articles without anthropomorphizing," a lot fewer people would have read it. A brilliant choice on their part.)
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Date: 2010-09-09 02:29 am (UTC)It's called Can Animals Be Gay?, but rather than truly trying to answer that question, the article really talks about the language that scientists use (or the language that scientists skirt around) in attempting to describe animals' sexual behaviors for a human audience. I found it fascinating.
(Why title that article with such an inflammatory headline? Their main goal was to get people to read that interesting article, and if they'd titled it "scientists talk about how they portray animals in same-sex couples in scientific articles without anthropomorphizing," a lot fewer people would have read it. A brilliant choice on their part.)