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23 Jan 2016, 4:08 pm
For a lot of cats this can be motivated by dominance and/or sexual frustration. It's more analogous to prison rape than to being gay.
Since they're in a zoo, it could be that they're doing this because they don't have access to any lionesses. Plus, it's likely the lion on bottom is not consenting to it, and is forced to put up with it because the lion on top is more dominant.
(Animal behaviour is one of my intense interests, by the way.)
For a lot of cats this can be motivated by dominance and/or sexual frustration. It's more analogous to prison rape than to being gay.
Since they're in a zoo, it could be that they're doing this because they don't have access to any lionesses. Plus, it's likely the lion on bottom is not consenting to it, and is forced to put up with it because the lion on top is more dominant.
(Animal behaviour is one of my intense interests, by the way.)