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Pioneering lesbian Laysans preserve the species

Comics about albatross same-sex unions.

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Feb 10, 2023
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I’m working on a longer comic about Lindsay Young’s research on what humans might call “lesbian” Lasysan albatross, who comprise 31% of the breeding colony of Laysan albatross on Oahu Island in Hawaii. Young has described it as the highest proportion of homosexual animals in the world.

I wanted to share the first couple of pages of my longer piece with you here!

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