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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...biology department, report some exceptions, like the laysan albatross. Last year, researchers studying a Hawaiian colony of albatrosses found that nearly a third of all the couples involved two females who courted and then shared parenting responsibilities. (Albatrosses don't have U-Hauls, so no lesbian jokes, please.) Male chinstrap penguins also form long-term relationships, at least in captivity. And some male bighorn sheep will mount females only after the females adopt male-like behaviors. (Watch a gay marriage wedding video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Animals (and People) Are Gay | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

TILL DEATH DO US PART And now for something truly unusual in nature: monogamy. For the black vulture, the California mouse and the chinstrap penguin, this rare state of affairs--or lack of affairs--is in the best interests of both male and female. Monogamy may not be for everyone, but staying faithful is sometimes the shrewdest reproductive strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Animal Attraction | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...punch the terrorist one time in the face. Because I am a nonviolent person, but would still feel a certain amount of anger, I would probably give the would-be terrorist a football helmet to put on when my turn came up. Then as he was affixing the chinstrap, I would kick him in the balls...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {untitled} | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

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