Bisexuality in the Animal Kingdom

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It's incredibly difficult to quantify how many people are by and it totally depends on how you ask the question. Almost every, i want to say species, but certainly every mammal, has been observed that animals have interaction with multiple genders. So it's the norm, not the exception. evolutionary biologists are really starting to reckon with that perhaps there has been a long time of misinterpret in and projecting heterosexual norms onto animal kingdom.

Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world – but according to psychologist Dr Julia Shaw, it’s the least well understood. She talks to Madeleine Finlay about her new book, Bi, which challenges us to think more deeply about who we are and how we love. She discusses the history of trying to define and measure bisexuality, sexual behaviour in the animal kingdom, and how we can improve health outcomes for bi people.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod