Gay lions mating
Gay Lions? Not Quite
A photograph of two male lions seemingly in an amorous embrace has some humans clutching their pearls.
After the let go of the photograph, taken in August at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Movie Classification Board, blamed humans (or maybe demons) for the male-on-male mounting.
"[P]robably, they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly," Mutua told Nairobi News, before suggesting that the lions be isolated and studied because the "demonic spirits inflicting in humans sound to have now caught up with animals."
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"It's rare, it's not really sexual and it tells us a lot more about those officials in Kenya and their homophobia than anything else," Craig Packer, the director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, told Live Science. "It's a bizarre overreactio
Portrait of a male lion basking in the sun on a rocky outcrop in the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania (not part of photos) / Wikimedia Commons
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.17.2016
Photographer Nicole Cambré caught two male lions “mating” on a recent photo launch in Botswana.
Same-sex relations, even long-term and monogamous, have distant been known of in the animal world. This is simply another example of it caught on camera by a professional photographer.
All photos below mutual from Cambré‘s website via embed.
Two male lions were mating in a wildlife park and the photo has gone viral
A pair of gay lions engaged in a mating display at a British wildlife park have raised some eyebrows.
The two males were seen getting intimate while a lioness was just metres away, Pink Newshas reported.
Russ Bridges, the amateur photographer who caught photos of the lions getting down, said, “There are two males and a female in that pride. One of the lions suddenly got up, walked over and jumped on his friend’s back.
“A fair limited people were watching this going on and laughing—they were all commenting on what it looked like.”
Bridges played off the mating display, calling it “play” although lions are among a huge number of animals known to contain gay sex.
“It’s not really unusual for them to act that way sometimes,” he said.
“I don’t realize if it’s a power thing or something enjoy that—it looks as if they are aggressive, but it’s all play between friends.”
Bridges said he’d never seen anything like it in his time as an amateur wildlife photographer.
“I’ve never seen a shot of two males on top of one another with one sticking his tongue out before,” he said.
“I think it was a bit of a ‘should ha
Wildlife photographer spots gay lion couple in Kenya
Two male lions possess been spotted canoodling at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya by a wildlife photographer.
Paul Goldstein—a guide for Exodus Travels—saw the pair nuzzling and mounting each other—in a nature unlike the way male and female lions behave together.
“This, however, was astonishing,” Goldstein tells the Daily Mail.
“When lions mate it normally lasts a few seconds, these two were at it for over a minute and the obvious affection afterwards was very evident, as opposed to the violent withdrawal when male and female mate.
“Even as he dismounted he did not back off as is normal after mating, he crept round to the other male's muzzle, for a nuzzle and threw a conspiratorial wink his way.”
The CEO of the Kenya Film Classification Board–and self-described moral crusader– Dr Ezekiel Mutua has called for the two lions to be separated.
Mutua recently banned the Disney Channel show Andi Mack because of a recent episode where a 13-year-old boy comes out as gay.
Not content with just censor