Gay animal farm
Biology of Homosexuality – The Animal Farm : A Queer Perspective
-Agnivo Niyogi
“The existence is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we cansuppose.”
-J.B.S. Haldane,evolutionary biologist
I think nothing needs to be added after this quote by the great Biologist. Although he might not acquire hinted at “queerness” as in homosexuality but nevertheless his words reflect the order in nature.
Nature has never differentiated between her creations. Homosexual behaviour coexisted with heterosexuality since the days of primordial soup. Instances of same-sex relationships in animal kingdom could blow any “doubting dimwit” off his wits. A 1999 review by researcher Bruce Bagemihl shows that homosexual behaviour has been observed in close to 1500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, and is well documented for 500 of them. “The animal kingdom [does] it with much greater sexual diversity — including homosexual, attracted to both genders and non reproductive sex — than the scientific people and society at grand have previously been willing to accept,” writes Bagemihl, in his review. In a special issue of Live Science, Sara Goudarzi spoke ab
Charles Gay was the founder of Gay's Lion Park.
He was a former circus performer, who had trained the animals for the movies
Lion tamer, Charles Male lover working with four lions at Gays Lion Farm in El Monte, California
Mr Gay ran his lion farm alongside his wife Muriel,
who was also a former circus performer
Feline hungry: All of the adolescent lion cubs gather around Mrs Gay
as she holds out a bowl with food
Mr Gay looks as though he is going head to head
with one of his animals, who rises up on his back legs
and jumps up at his trainer
His park was also responsible for the breeding of African lions.
Here Mr Gay is pictured holding up two young cubs
Mrs Gay balances two very young cubs on her shoulders.
At its peak Mrs Gay and her husband looked after 200 lions
Mr Gay teaches one of his immature cubs to hold his own bottle of milk
during feeding time at Gay's Lion Farm.
Mr and Mrs Gay along with veterinary staff check over some of
the young cubs that were born at Gay's Lion Farm in the 1930s
Located in the city of El Monte on Valley Boulevard, the entire property is now underneath the on/off ramps on the southeast portion of Interstate 10 and Peck Road. Two lion statues guarded the entrance to the farm. After the closing of the farm in 1942, one of the lions was relocated and it is now guarding the entrance to El Monte High School, located nearby. In its heyday, over 200 lions were housed at the farm including the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion, Jackie, and several that were used in the Tarzan films from 1918 to 1942. The facility was open to the public and not only could they observe the animals in their cages (the cages were situated in an U-shape), there were also animal show demonstrations performed by Gay and his troupe of helpers. Paul Stephen Bryant The true reason why my family got two goats is up to interpretation. The story changes depending on who you ask, but the facts remain the same. Dad had a coworker from IGA who owned two goats. The coworker was moving from Marion, a small town near the city of Florence, South Carolina where I grew up, to another town across the state. Due to lethargy, a lack of supplies, or environmental hazards pertaining to his new house, the coworker could not bring the two goats with him. So somehow we picked them up. My black goat Fido liked the smell and style of pine. I used to go out to my dirt lane and break the limbs off pine trees. He would suck up pine with a wutwutwutwut. My alabaster goat Billy Bob never ate pine. Instead, he would always take huge chunks out of the 5-foot high wooden shed Dad and I erected for the horned mammals. My two goats were foolish. Think about all the brain damage NFL players get even while wearing helmets. Now think about two territorial goats cramped in a small stylus with nothing else to do but tackle each other. They slammed the full weights of their bodies through their heads so much that I think Fido forgot h .
Mr Gay had to close his lion farm in 1942 as war rations meant
there was not enough meat to feed his big cats.
After the war ende Winter/Spring 2020