This is wild. “Our ethogram, did not allow room for sexual behavior not between a male and a female….The result is a self-reinforcing loop: there is little or no published data on same-sex behavior, so we assume it is rare, so we do not study it, so there continues to be little or no published data”
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈
Next, @mebenitez.bsky.social article "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in @tvolmag.bsky.social! She uses examples from her own research about how using established ethograms prevented recording and studying same-sex sexual behaviors! (4/n)
🧪🏳️🌈 #PrideMonth
www.prosocial.world/posts/dont-a...
Scientific bias has obscured how common same-sex behavior is across the animal world.
