Pink News has shared this adorable video of Frankie and Vinnie.
These two Macaroni penguins are living at the Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo in Pembrokeshire in Wales.
Frankie and Vinnie started out like good friends, but they are now displaying all the behaviors that indicate a love relationship.
Same-sex relationships are common in nature, and many species completely ignore the demand for a strict gender binary. Sorry homophobes and transphobes: This is the way nature wants it to be.
i am not a furry (said with respect towards furries and shame towards myself /lh) but have been wanting to refine my own fursona + get better at drawing silly lil creachurs so am sharing this very very saccharine art of me and my partner that i made for valentine's day <3
i'm a red panda (they/them) and my partner is a black schnauzer (he/him) :3
Saltriovenator at sunset picking up a washed up Cenoceras
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Spectrovenator hunting a Tapuiasaurus in the rain moments before disaster.
A pair of Pavlodaria orlovi bucks have some "quality time".
I never got to show yall because I got sick the day of, but here are the stickers and prints i made for my pride vending gig from a week ago in June.
I spent a lot of time making these, and I'm really sad I couldn't be there to share the joy these give me.
The profit from the orca ones was gonna go to orca conservation up in washington
That being said, the roblox face ones crack me the fuck up. And if you guys wanna know more about the transgender fish thing let me know if it's something I research a lot, so i'd be happy to talk about it.
An amazing must see cartoon about queer and transgender animals
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Marcel Barelli‘s cartoon Dans la nature (In Nature) has won a lot of awards, and for good reason.
In a wonderful way it documents the diversity of animal sexuality and gender, documenting once and for all that nature does not care a bit about the binaries of bigots.
Marcel Barelli, the director, says:
"It was a long time that I wanted to do a film about homophobia, but I couldn't find a good idea. One day, I read a book about animal homosexuality [Animaux homo: histoire naturelle de l'homosexualité by Fleur Daugey]".
"I asked Fleur Daugey, the French ethologist and journalist, to help me write a short film. We chose to write a film for children too; we decided it's possible to talk about this to children. We don't even need to talk about sexuality, just about love and feelings of love between the animals".
"I prefer not to use the term 'natural' here, but homosexuality is everywhere. It is in insects, it is in animals; there is nothing bad about it."
Note also that the movie not only covers same sex relationships. It also looks into gender diversity and animals that change sex.
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Some will probably say that using words like “queer”, “gay” and “trans” is misleading. From a scientific point of view that might at least be partly true, but when we discuss the diversity of gender and sexuality in humans, it makes sense to look for similar phenomena in animals. It is not a coincidence that we find same-sex relationships and shifting genders in nature as well. Humans are, after all, animals too.
Photo of Marcel via Swiss Films.
More:
Do animals have genders? Are there transgender animals? A scientist find some clues among chimpanzees.