TY - JOUR
T1 - Birds gone wild
T2 - same-sex parenting in albatross
AU - Zuk, Marlene
AU - Bailey, Nathan W.
N1 - Funding Information:
M.Z. is funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the UCR Academic Senate.
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - Same-sex behavior in animals fascinates scientists as well as laypeople, partly because of implications about sexual orientation in humans. After all, if animals engage in homosexuality, can it be dismissed as 'unnatural'? A recent paper by Young and colleagues documents long-term female pairs in >30% of Laysan albatross on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The unrelated females bred successfully, challenging ideas about cooperative breeding, alternative reproductive strategies and perhaps even the evolution of sexual orientation.
AB - Same-sex behavior in animals fascinates scientists as well as laypeople, partly because of implications about sexual orientation in humans. After all, if animals engage in homosexuality, can it be dismissed as 'unnatural'? A recent paper by Young and colleagues documents long-term female pairs in >30% of Laysan albatross on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The unrelated females bred successfully, challenging ideas about cooperative breeding, alternative reproductive strategies and perhaps even the evolution of sexual orientation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tree.2008.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.tree.2008.08.004
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 18951655
AN - SCOPUS:55249127023
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 23
SP - 658
EP - 660
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 12
ER -