Pollution Makes Birds Gay

The never-ending quest for scientific discovery continues:

The nature versus nurture debate just took an unexpected turn -- thanks to pollution.

Increased exposure to the toxic chemical mercury can affect sexual preference in certain species of birds -- inducing homosexuality, a new study has revealed.

Peter Frederick, an ecologist from the University of Florida, and Nilmini Jayasena from the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka found that male American white ibises that consumed methylmercury, the most toxic and easily digested form of mercury found in the environment, were more likely to pair with other males. In wild ibis populations with no mercury exposure, same-sex pairing is non-existent.

How do you think the LGBT community is going to react to that? If the birds were not born gay but became gay because of chemical pollution it puts a whole new slant on the nature vs. nurture argument.

And as I recall, it can get pretty smoggy in West Hollywood.