Queer Par Nature Documentary Explores Queer Intimacy and Sexuality in Animals

A French-language Peacock documentary titled Queer par nature, presented in a French dub on Crave, explores “l’intimité et la sexualité queer des animaux” and includes species such as “Mouflons d’Amérique et pingouins gais” alongside “lions et flamants roses bisexuels.”

“Wild Loves: All Tastes Are in Nature”

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The Fugues magazine review says the film looks beyond “l’acte sexuel” to “la tendresse, les caresses, la vie de couple et l’homoparentalité,” and it credits “Des scientifiques et experts de renom” for explaining animal behaviors.

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It highlights examples including lions where “les mâles se déplacent en coalition,” and it adds that “Chez les hippocampes, on est en couple pour la vie et c’est le mâle qui accouche.”

The same article also claims that “des relations homosexuelles sont observées chez plus de 1 500 espèces,” and it points to emperor penguins where “23 % des couples sont homosexuels.”

Télérama frames Lucy Cooke’s essay “Bitch. The Power of Females in the Animal World” as an effort to “takes down misogynist mythology and sexist stereotypes” that shaped biology “of evolution,” including Darwin.

In the same Télérama piece, the publication argues that the cliché of male animals as dominant competitors “does not withstand observation of nature,” and it contrasts that story with examples like “murderous meerkat matriarchs” and “lesbian albatrosses.”

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Télé-Loisirs, meanwhile, promotes France 5’s The Animal Kingdom: The Games of Love, airing Monday February 20 at 9:00 p.m., and it describes the documentary as focusing on “romantic love in different animal species.”

Télé-Loisirs says the film treats “behavioral and sexual diversity” as “the rule,” citing species such as bottlenose dolphins, male walruses that form “true harems of females,” and beavers that “are monogamous and remain so until the death of their mate.”

ARTE’s Wild Loves: All Tastes Are in Nature, directed by Samuel Ruffier and set in France with a year of 2025, presents “a survey of the most unexpected sexual behaviors in the animal kingdom” and says it challenges the idea that animal sexuality is “solely a matter of reproduction.”

“Mouflons d’Amérique et pingouins gais, lions et flamants roses bisexuels, primates pansexuels, poissons-clowns qui changent de sexe et champignons multigenres ne sont que quelques-unes des nombreuses espèces présentées au cœur de ce fascinant documentaire sur la diversité de la sexualité animale”

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The ARTE description says “Homosexual loves, long taboo but indeed observed in more than 1,500 species” are “almost banal” beside other behaviors, including “collective cuddling of white sperm whales.”

Democracy Now! adds that a new documentary called Second Nature is “narrated by the Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page” and directed by Drew Denny, and it says the film explores “the extraordinary gender fluidity and sexual diversity found in the animal kingdom.”

In the Democracy Now! transcript, Elliot Page says, “There are approximately 8.7 million living animal species on Earth,” and the trailer includes statements such as “Homosexual behavior in nature is one of the best-kept secrets.”