The world is getting crazier by the day and strange occurrences are becoming norms. An Australian researcher has for the first time, documented two mountain gorillas having lesbian sex in the mountains of Rwanda. This is the first time homosexual behaviour of its kind has been formally documented in the wild.
According to Cyril Grueter, an associate professor and primate expert from the University of Western Australia, the behaviour between the two female gorillas is simply motivated by sexual arousal.
“Given that all these observations come from wild groups, not gorillas held in captivity, it is obvious that homosexual activity is part of the gorillas’ natural behaviour,” Grueter said.
He believe that the female gorillas might have done it after they were rejected by males.
Grueter concluded that female gorilla sexuality is very flexible, just like how women are more fluid in sexuality than men. The female gorillas can easily switch from heterosexual sex to homosexual sex, engaging in same-sex sexual activity with other female gorillas when no male gorillas are around to mate with them.
While many species of male primates are well known to engage in homosexual behaviour, females have been subject to far less attention. Recently a Belgian photographer had captured the image of two male lions cuddling with each other.
Lion
