Blog for and by students and staff in the English section of the University of Namur's Department of Germanic languages...
Sunday, October 22, 2006
Gay penguins and bisexual bonobos
The Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo (Norway) has recently opened a remarkable exhibition devoted to homosexuality in the animal kingdom. As the museum explains on its website, one of its aims in documenting some of the hundreds of species where same-sex short and long-term relationships have been observed is to counter the all too familiar claim that such relationships are a crime 'against nature' (hence the title of the exposition, Against nature?).
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