Gay Animals with Field Guide to Gay Animals
SciShow Tangents
Intro
In this chapter, hosts welcome guests from a new podcast that delves into the exploration of sexuality and gender in the animal kingdom. The conversation begins with lighthearted anecdotes, leading to a more profound discussion inspired by the themes of the 'Field Guide to Gay Animals'.
It wouldn't be Pride at Tangents if we weren't getting into some science! We're joined by Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson, the hosts of a new show from news outlet Canadaland called "Field Guide to Gay Animals." Our conversation ranged far and wide across a myriad of ways queerness is expressed in the animal world and the challenges and joys of studying it.
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Sources:
[Truth or Fail Express]
Sequentially hermaphroditic shrimp
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218238
Nudibranch with male and female sex organs
https://www.livescience.com/27065-sea-slug-uses-disposable-penis.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639767/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-018-0562-z?wt
Sparrows with white or tan stripes and functionally four genders
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated-sex-lives-white-throated-sparrows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725849/
[This or That: Bird or Bug?]
Male-male duo that dances together to attract a mate (blue-backed manakin)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51171525#page/225/mode/1up
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/18/1/21/209396
Male-male pair that takes over a male-female pair’s nest (Japanese termites)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/680968
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216301233
Mating-related injuries on both male and female specimens (dragonflies)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16252041#page/48/mode/1up
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of sexual diversity in animals documented or not in zoology (e.g. Adelie penguins)
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055
https://www.penguinscience.com/reprints/10%20Russell.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Aristotle’s History of Animals mentions female pigeons laying wind-eggs after same-sex sexual behavior
https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.6.vi.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-an-egg-with-no-yolk
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