Sea birds are doing it for themselves
“[These female albatrosses] behave just like male-female pairs…. If a male comes up to one female in the pair, the second female gets really possessive…. They both lay eggs, and the one that is closest to the brood patch… is the egg that survives…. The longest we’ve seen them stay together so far is 19 years…. These albatrosses do socially stay with the same partners for long periods of time. It’s just that they don’t always mate with their partners exclusively.”
Lindsay Young, a doctoral student studying behavioral ecology at the University of Hawaii. on the discovery one Laysan albatross colony where female pairs of the sea birds form relationships and even lay two eggs in a nest. It is noted that other types of sea birds and roughly 1,500 animal species overall are known to exhibit same-sex coupling. (Fox News)
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