I read somewhere that scientists could get female animals (rats, I
think) to exhibit mounting behavior by injecting them with extra
testosterone. Not exactly "in nature", but I thought it was interesting.
Lisa Hawkes wrote:
>
> I hate to contradict someone else but homosexuality has been found in
> animals in the wild when there are no heterosexual pairings to be made.
> Strange as it may seem, researchers have found that (if my memory serves
> correctly I believe it was birds)animals exposed to high levels of
> pesticedes have a higher likelyhood of exhibiting homosexual behavior(not
> sex necessarily but homosexual pairings). But, in your case I agree that it
> is most likely a dominance factor. Dogs, rabbits, wolves etc... all do the
> same sort of behviors to shoew who makes the decisions.
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