Gay black swans

80% of gay black swan couples successfully raise their young, but only 30% of straight swan couples successfully raise their young. Black swans (Cygnus atratus) also form stable male-male pairs that last for many years.

Gay swans may even raise offspring together as a couple. The black swan, Cygnus atratus is a large waterbird which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia. An estimated one-quarter of all black swans pairings are homosexual and they steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs.

[13][14]. Gay black swans exist and it’s pretty cute. Photo by Kev Kindred on Unsplash. In fact, it’s estimated that one-quarter of all black swan pairings are homosexual, mostly between males. But what’s even more fascinating, is their parenting behaviours. A pair of male black swans at Melbourne Zoo are practising parenting after keepers gave them fake eggs after they coupled up and built a nest.

Research on the species shows that male black swans frequently pair up together, both in captivity and in the wild. Very confusingly, the tour guides who worked at the lagoon where this all went down decided to name the newly-arrived, actually female bird Henrietta, while the artist formerly known as Henrietta got rechristened as Henry. Speaker 7 : Okay? I'm like, that's fine. May Boeheme at Science TV Australia for clarifying these papers are about black swans, not all swans.

Complete accuracy is not guaranteed. For nearly two decades they were generally seen together, with Thomas protecting Henrietta from dogs and other disturbances. And I said, you realize he doesn't have any idea to Mars's birthday, right, She's so he's getting a birthday walk.

What percentage of swans are gay

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So on it rained here in Jacksonville on Saturday and again yesterday. Then another black swan showed up, and things got… complicated. Perhaps most extraordinarily, however, is that an impressive 80 percent of young raised by Male-Male pairs successfully fledge grow up and leave the nest , surpassing the 30 percent success rate of straight couples.

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