Peacock’s ‘Queer Planet’ explores the diversity of animal sexuality
Lion ‘bromances,’ pansexual monkeys and ‘super queer’ giraffes star in Peacock’s new ‘Queer Planet’ documentary.
Giraffes are “super queer,” at least according to one scientist in a new documentary about the diversity of animal sexuality.
“Queer Planet,” which debuts June 6 on Peacock, NBC’s streaming network, features gay penguins, lion “bromances” and lesbian primates, among many other animals that don’t have strictly heterosexual interactions. More than 1,500 species have been shown to engage in queer behaviors, according to the 90-minute documentary.
“Everything you were taught as a kid is wrong,” Bradley Trevor Greive, an Australian author and wildlife TV host says in the “Queer Planet” trailer. “This is a queer planet.”
The documentary, which is narrated by actor Andrew Rannells (“Girls5eva”), details how groups of male lions have long formed “bromances” with other male lions, which include cuddling and sometimes mounting each other, and the sexual promiscuity of pansexual bonobo monkeys, who have sex with other bonobos regardless of gender.
“Animals that have a lot of sex tend to have less war,” Greive says in the documentary. “I don’t know how that extrapolates to human society, but, to be honest, we should all probably get laid a little more than we do.”
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