This story reminds me of a similar story - a male pair of Griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus). They incubated eggs and reared other pairs' youngs as part of a breeding in captivity effort in Israel some years ago. Merav
Merav Vonshak Postdoctoral Fellow Gordon Laboratory Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 Phone: 650-725-6791 email: [email protected] http://www.stanford.edu/~mvonshak On 27, Mar2013, at 12:08 PM, Montblanc, Genie wrote: > WT, > > Since I don't study this, I'm giving a, "What I've heard in the news," > response. There were two stories awhile back, both relating to animals in > captivity, about homosexual pair bonding. One was with penguins, I think > they also raised a chick together, and the other was with dolphins. Given > that long-term pair bonding only occurs in 8-11 species in the entire animal > kingdom, the question might be moot anyway. > > That is my inexpert response. Have a great expedition! > Génie > > Eugénie MontBlanc > Great Basin Fire Science Delivery Coordinator > University of Nevada/Mail Stop 0186, Reno, NV 89557 > Phone: 775-784-1107 (Fax: -1109) > Email: [email protected] > Web: www.gbfiresci.org > Twitter: @GBfirescience > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Tyson > Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Expedition notice and question > > [NOTE:] I will be on expedition (with a stop at the National Native Seed > Conference in Santa Fe NM on April 10) until the two weeks at the end of > April and the first week of May, then gone again beginning the 2nd week of > May until around May 24. I will not be checking email during those periods, > but will respond to as many email messages as possible during those hiatuses. > A third expedition following those is likely, but the period of hiatus is > iffy.] > > Here is my parting question. Please feel free to post it on other lists. > > Re: Homosexuality in animals other than Homo sapiens. We know that homosexual > behavior occurs in other species in some forms (Bonobo chimpanzees [Pan > paniscus], for example), and we know that hermaphrodites of some species > fertilize each other simultaneously. But my question is in which species > other than humans, does EXCLUSIVE homosexuality, especially in the form of > pair bonds, occur? > > WT > > I'll pick up my answers in late April. If I have time, I may be able to > respond to some today. Please respond on-list, and not to me personally.
