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.
The female lion was like… pic.twitter.com/zBQkJmPWF1
— IG:Dablauw_ (@DaBlauw) September 1, 2019
https://twitter.com/midwestfag/status/1168052618985271297
https://twitter.com/Bdoughly/status/1168001103297777664
So, she tried to pull up and take his man, and he wasn’t having it?
— Demetri D. 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇧🇷 (@demetridomnguez) August 31, 2019
https://twitter.com/Re_neilwe_J/status/1168021133217546240
That's what I call gay pride.
— Phil Marsden (@phil_marsden) September 1, 2019
Yup. In Animal kingdom, there are also straight and gay animals.😇
— BOTtomless (@Michell88774600) September 1, 2019
Lioness face when she walked in pic.twitter.com/tGZjYc4Lkr
— Black Loot (@FineLoot) September 1, 2019
So Simba is gay 🤔
— Sir (@SirBallz) September 1, 2019
But were they really being sexual? This is still uncertain because experts say that sometimes, female lions in the wild also have manes.
Some female lions have manes
— Travon Free (@Travon) September 1, 2019
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.