Pride and prejudice: Gay lions seen in Kenya 'need counselling' and 'must have been 影響（力）d by homosexual men behaving 不正に in 国家の parks' says country's 'moral policeman'

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Images of a romantic 遭遇（する） between two male lions in Kenya's Masai Mara has upset the country's 'moral police' who has 非難するd gay men visiting the 国家の park for '影響（力）ing' the animals' behaviour.?

Dr Ezekiel Mutua, who is 責任がある TV and film 検閲 in Kenya, has called for the two lions in question to be caught and kept in 孤立／分離 until scientists can '決定する how they acquired homosexual behaviour'.?

にもかかわらず the fact that homosexuality の中で lions has been 観察するd for １０年間s, Dr Mutua is 納得させるd that the lions would either have spotted gay men having sex in 前線 of them, or been 所有するd by demons.

Gay pride: Two male lions were spotted engaging in 性の activity on the Masai Mara in Kenya, an 出来事/事件 which 大いに upset one of the country's self-布告するd 'moral policemen' who 非難するs gay men for '影響（力）ing' the animals

In his 追求（する），探索（する） to find a 代案／選択肢 explanation for what is a 井戸／弁護士席-文書d natural occurrence, Dr Mutua also called for an 調査 into whether the two lions - にもかかわらず their grand manes - were really male.

'These animals need 助言, because probably they have been 影響（力）d by gays who have gone to the 国家の parks and behaved 不正に,' Dr Mutua told?Nairobi News.?

行方不明の the mane point: Dr Ezekiel Mutua also said there was not enough 証拠 that the two lions were male

Dr Mutua is 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある of the Kenya Film 分類 Board (KFCB), and in 弁護 of his own work he told the paper that the animals could not have seen gay sex on film and therefore must have 証言，証人／目撃するd it in the Masai Mara.

'They must have copied it from somewhere or it is demonic. Because these animals do not watch movies.'?

He also 需要・要求するd 確定／確認 of the genders of the lions, 説 ' we should not jump to 結論s that the lions were both male'.

Gay and transgender people are 厳しく 差別するd against in Kenya, and any same-sex 性の activity is 違法な and 罰せられるべき by up to 14 years in 刑務所，拘置所.?

The images which so upset Dr Mutua were taken by London-based photographer?Paul Goldstein during a trip to the Masai Mara.

Mr Goldstein said he first 観察するd the two lions standing 味方する-by-味方する, before one lay 負かす／撃墜する and was gently 機動力のある by the other. At one point one lion's 長，率いる was 残り／休憩（する）ing on the other's.

Mr Goldstein, a guide for Exodus Travels, says: 'いつかs you just see something that takes your breath away. I was guiding in the Masai Mara recently and we saw two impressive alpha males in perfect light.

'After a while they stood together, in perfect symmetry. What then happened was remarkable.

'I have heard of this happening in Botswana but with nothing like this vigour, and indeed at さまざまな zoos and safari parks, but incarcerated animals will do strange things, who can 非難する them.?

In the ジャングル: The couple appear to have walked into some bushes to get some privacy

Hakuna matata: One of the lions 嘘（をつく） 負かす／撃墜する under the bushes as the other climbs on 最高の，を越す of it?

Damn, they've seen us: The happy couple then engaged in a love-making 開会／開廷／会期 that lasted for at least a minute, によれば the photographer

'This however was astonishing. I 普通は loathe any sort of humanising with animals and our 文書の channels are 十分な of it, but this was not only surprising but it was impossible not to smile.

'When lions mate it 普通は last a few seconds, these two were at it for over a minute and the obvious affection afterwards was very evident, as …に反対するd to the violent 撤退 when male and 女性（の） mate.

'Even as he dismounted he did not 支援する off as is normal after mating, he crept 一連の会議、交渉／完成する to the other male's muzzle, for a nuzzle and threw a conspiratorial wink his way.'??

Happy hump-day! Homosexual activity is not unknown の中で lions, 特に males, and scientists 報告（する）／憶測 that some eight per cent of all 観察するd mountings in the wild are male on male

Can you feel the love tonight: The photographer 観察するd the couple affectionately nuzzling each other after the 開始するing

While male lions engaging in 性の activity is a rare occurrence, it is far from unknown.

In fact, 熟考する／考慮するs published in the 20th century 示すd that about eight per cent of 'mountings' 観察するd by scientists had been male lions with other males.

Male lions have been 観察するd 法廷，裁判所ing other lions, 含むing showing affection and caressing, 同様に as 開始するing. Lionesses are also known to couple up, however this has おもに been 観察するd in 捕らわれた.

Lions are by no means the only animal 種類 where homosexual relations 出口s. Biologists have 記録，記録的な／記録するd same-sex 性の activity in more than 450 種類 含むing flamingos, bison, beetles and warthogs.

A 2010 熟考する／考慮する of Alaskan Albatrosses 設立する that a third of the pairs 現実に consisted of two 女性（の）s.

HOMOSEXUALITY AMONG ANIMALS: CAN ANIMALS BE GAY?

Not unheard of: The male lion couple in Kenya

によれば Darwin, the 性の impulses of animals are designed to 原因（となる） reproduction, and are therefore やむを得ず 異性愛の.

But 最近の 研究 示唆するs that homosexual animals ? often 解任するd by biologists as the exceptions that 証明する the 支配する ? may be more ありふれた than 以前 thought.

Some biologists （人命などを）奪う，主張する 'gay' animal behaviour has been spotted in 1,500 different 種類, and reliably 記録，記録的な／記録するd in a third of these 事例／患者s - 概略で 450 種類.?

Animals that have 陳列する，発揮するd homosexual 行為 含む emus, chickens, koalas, salmon, cats, フクロウs and イルカs.

によれば 研究, about a fifth of 捕虜 king penguins are gay and it is ありふれた for male 黒人／ボイコット swans to raise cygnets as a couple ? かもしれない to 供給する better 保護.

Zoologist Petter Bockman, an 専門家 on the 支配する at the University of Oslo, 解任するs those who draw political 関わりあい／含蓄s from the 科学の findings.

He says: 'If you ask: 'Can animals be gay?' The short answer is: 'Yes.' 'Gay' is a human word, however, so we prefer to use the word 'homosexual' for animals.

'Sexuality is not just about making babies, it is also about making the flock work. For some animals, homosexuality is normal flock behaviour.'

He says the 問題／発行する has long been タブー for 研究員s who are 'fearful of 存在 ridiculed by their 同僚s'.?

農業者s often come across bulls and 押し通すs that 簡単に 辞退する to mate with 女性（の）s, he （人命などを）奪う，主張するs, and, in 2004, Charles Roselli at the Ohio Health and Science University 報告（する）／憶測d that about eight per cent of 国内の 押し通すs prefer other males.

Bockman curated an 展示 Against Nature's Order for the Norwegian Natural History Museum. One Pentecostal 大臣 told him he would '燃やす in hell' for his work.

Another said the money would be better spent 'curing gay animals'.?

Sources: The Telegraph and The Daily Mail?

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Mr Goldstein is 始める，決める to 持つ／拘留する several charity lecture evenings with TV presenter Chris Packham, more （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） can be 設立する here.?