Laysan albatrosses are a fairly well-known example. Here's a (lengthy) article describing it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04animals-t.html?pagewanted=all
-Kristen On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Merav Vonshak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Kristen Dybala, Post-doctoral Researcher Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology University of California, Davis [email protected] (415) 218-9295 - cell
