Gay lions mate
Wildlife photographer spots male lover lion couple in Kenya
Two male lions have been spotted canoodling at the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya by a wildlife photographer.
Paul Goldstein—a reference for Exodus Travels—saw the pair nuzzling and mounting each other—in a innateness 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 limited seconds, these two were at it for over a minute and the obvious affection afterwards was very clear, as opposed to the violent withdrawal when male and female mate.
“Even as he dismounted he did not endorse off as is normal after mating, he crept circular 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 male child comes out as gay.
Not content with just censor
Gay Lions? Not Quite
A photograph of two male lions seemingly in an amorous embrace has some humans clutching their pearls.
After the release of the photograph, taken in August at Kenya's Masai Mara National Reserve, Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film 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 seem to contain now caught up with animals."
You may loveThe actual story behind the photograph shows that Mutua got some things wrong. The mounting deed isn't actually sexual. And the official jumped the gun on attributing human motivations to animal conduct, experts said. ['Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Lifestyles in the Wild]
"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
Is This a Picture of Gay Lions Mating?
A photograph of mating male lions that raced around social and news media may not be exactly what it appears to be at first blush.
Image courtesy of Nicole Cambré/Rex ShutterstockPhotographs and videos exhibit a pair of homosexual lions having sex.
Same-sex coupling appears throughout every animal species, but only seems to be controversial (or really of interest) to humans. When photographer Nicole Cambré caught two male lions mating, the images she took spread across news and social media fond wildfire:
But not so fast — National Geographic says that it's possible that the lighter-maned lion is actually a female (albeit an unusual one):
The lion on the bottom is more than likely a female African lion with a mane, a type of animal regularly seen in northern Botswana, where Nicole Cambré recently photographed the lions on safari.
One of the photos shows the two animals rubbing their heads against each other, which is not unique behavior for males as part of a superiority display, notes Kathleen Alexander, an African lion maestro and professor at Virgina Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg.
As for the mating,
A photograph of two male lions in an apparent sexual encounter has caused quite a stir in Kenya—and the head of the country's film censorship board thinks that the animals must have learned their behavior from humans.
"These animals need counseling, because probably they have been influenced by gays who have gone to the national parks and behaved badly," Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Production Classification Board (KFCB), told Nairobi News.
Mutua's comments after pictures taken by U.K.-based photographer Paul Goldstein showed two male lions retreating into a hectic area in the Maasai Mara, a game reserve in southwest Kenya. One of the lions laid down and was mounted by the other.
"When lions mate it normally lasts a scant seconds, these two were at it for over a minute and the obvious affection afterwards was very obvious, as opposed to the violent withdrawal when male and female mate," Goldstein told MailOnline.
Mutua is known as a moral crusader in Kenya and has banned television shows for purportedly promoting homosexuality and criticized lewd content.
Read more: This map shows where it's illegal to be lgbtq+ in Africa
The censor said that scientific re
JOHANNESBURG -- A wildlife photographer's candid shot of two male lions in what appears to be an amorous embrace at a reserve in Kenya has the African nation's moral authorities concerned about feasible demonic possession, or humans "behaving badly" and setting the wrong example for the animal kingdom.
"Demons also inhabit animals," Ezekiel Mutua, the chief executive of the Kenya Film Classification Board, told Nairobi News in an interview posted online last week.
The recent photos, taken in a Kenyan wildlife area, execute show a rare sight: a male lion mounting another male lion in what resembles a sexual act, but experts speak may have been a way of showing dominance.
The spectacle of two feral male lions in such intimacy was also observed in Botswana last year and has sometimes been interpreted as homosexual conduct, though lion experts tell it is a relatively uncommon form of bonding or social interaction.
Paul Goldstein, the photographer who captured the images in Kenya's Maasai Mara reserve in August, said many other species are known to engage in such habit and that, for example, he had seen giraffes doing it.
"It was just a dramatic thing to see," Goldstein said of the
