[ineedasername]

>"They're not too meticulous about who their partners are. They just have this kind of a sexual urge, and then they'll engage in activity with whomever seems to be in the area, and if that's a female, great," Gjeltema said.

>"But if there are not enough females around or there are only males around, they may express that sexual behavior on whatever individual may be in the vicinity," she said.

This is not even particularly unique to manatees. It would be good if information like this was more widely circulated in basic biology classes to dismiss certain notions about what constitutes “natural” sexual behaviors and preferences.

[Incipient]

I wouldn't call this behaviour a "preference" as such however. Engaging in coitus with the nearest available object out of sexual frustration is probably more akin to using a fleshlight than our "in love with the same gender" definition of homosexuality.

[p1esk]

Why is this downvoted?