Lil Light Foot said:
Where is the proof that they hid, destroyed and manipulated the data?
Exactly, you don't have any, because they hid and destroyed it, how convenient.
In his book Bagemihl has carefully documented several attempts by the scientists to hide, destroy, ignore and distort data on same-sex behaviour amongst the wild.
Here are a few excerpts from one of its reviews:
".....most scientists have thus far studiously avoided the topic of widespread homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom--sometimes in the face of undeniable evidence."
".....An overview of biologists' discomfort with their own observations of animal homosexuality over 200 years would be truly hilarious if it didn't reflect a tendency of humans (and only humans) to respond with aggression and hostility to same-sex behavior in our own species. In fact, Bagemihl reports, scientists have sometimes been afraid to report their observations for fear of recrimination from a hidebound (and homophobic) academia. Scientists' use of anthropomorphizing vocabulary such as insulting, unfortunate, and inappropriate to describe same-sex matings shows a decided lack of objectivity on the part of naturalists. "
"Astounding as it sounds, a number of scientists have actually argued that when a female Bonobo wraps her legs around another female ... while emitting screams of enjoyment, this is actually "greeting" behavior, or "appeasement" behavior ... almost anything, it seems, besides pleasurable sexual behavior.
Throw this book into the middle of a crowd of wildlife biologists and watch them scatter. But Bagemihl doesn't let the scientific community's discomfort deny him the opportunity to show "the love that dare not bark its name" in all its feathery, furry, toothy diversity."
and yes if you're going to dismiss Bagemihl as an unscientific lunatic with an agenda, here is what the site says about bagemihl book "Biological Exuberance":
".....Biological Exuberance is a well-researched, thoroughly scientific, and erudite look at a purposefully neglected frontier of zoology." --Therese Littleton
(excerpted from:
Provocative Non-Fiction )