Video Of Male Lions Chasing Off A Female For Interrupting Their Bromance Is Going Viral

Tanay and John, Amit and Aditya & Sundas and Anjali – these LGBT couples openly celebrated their love recently and set major #RelationshipGoals. We were awestruck by their happy pictures and felt overjoyed by the fact that society is way more accepting of homosexuality now than ever before. So much so that we’re also talking about and sharing the love story of gay penguins Ronnie and Reggie too!

Now, Twitter user @djordxc has shared a video of two male lions being affectionate with each other and netizens are wondering if some lions are also gay.

https://twitter.com/djordxc/status/1167932220310319105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1167932220310319105%7Ctwgr%5E363937393b636f6e74726f6c&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latestly.com%2Fsocial-viral%2Fgay-pride-video-of-male-lions-mating-goes-viral-reminding-us-that-love-is-love-1156113.html

This video has about 27,000 retweets and 79,000 likes. The internet is loving the bromance between the lions. Some are saying this is proof that homosexuality isn’t unnatural while others are poking fun at the way the lioness was chased off for interrupting.

Here are some of the reactions. Take a look.

https://twitter.com/midwestfag/status/1168052618985271297

https://twitter.com/Bdoughly/status/1168001103297777664

https://twitter.com/Re_neilwe_J/status/1168021133217546240

But were they really being sexual? This is still uncertain because experts say that sometimes, female lions in the wild also have manes.

Another observation is that male lions form “coalitions” on occasion to scare off rival males to ensure their dominance over prides of females. In such a case the lions in the coalition bond with each other by licking, rubbing, nuzzling and mounting/ humping. Live Science quoted Craig Packer, the director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, explaining

“It’s a social interaction that has nothing to do with sexual pleasure.”

https://twitter.com/mad4sci/status/1168035087134257152

So, what do you guys make of this footage? Tell us in the comments below.

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