The Golden One - Marcus Follin - Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Homosexual
Aired: 2019-01-23
Duration: 04:28


=== Mercury Poisoning Makes Birds Act Gay (01:29) ===

[00:00:00]  Greetings my esteemed subscribers.
[00:00:02]  I have stumbled upon yet another interesting headline, this time at National Geographic.
[00:00:09]  I actually used to subscribe to the magazine when I was younger.
[00:00:13]  National Geographic.
[00:00:15]  Good stuff.
[00:00:16]  But since then they have become a bit more heretical in certain regards, as I'm sure some of you are aware.
[00:00:24]  But anyway, they produce some good content anyway, as we can see in this case.
[00:00:29]  So we have the article at hand.
[00:00:31]  Mercury poisoning makes birds act homosexual.
[00:00:35]  Then we have the white ibises here in the picture who have been contaminated by mercury.
[00:00:42]  So I'm gonna read on a bit in the article before elaborating a bit myself.
[00:00:47]  Male birds that eat mercury contaminated food show surprising homosexual behavior.
[00:00:53]  Scientists have found.
[00:00:55]  In a recent experiment in captive white ibises, many of the males exposed to the metal chose other males as mates.
[00:01:03]  These male and male pairs did everything that a heterosexual pair would do, said the study leader Peter Frederick, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
[00:01:15]  Cool name by the way, Gainesville.
[00:01:18]  Hope they have good gyms there.
[00:01:21]  So anyway, they continue elaborating a bit on what these birds are doing, not really necessary for our purposes today.

=== Mercury's Impact on Behavior (02:59) ===

[00:01:29]  Something that is interesting though is this point.
[00:01:34]  Contaminated birds produce fewer babies.
[00:01:37]  The article states that the metal also impact the heterosexual couples.
[00:01:42]  Overall, female birds exposed to mercury yielded 35% fewer babies than the control group.
[00:01:50]  So obviously bad for both males and females.
[00:01:53]  And the study goes on.
[00:01:56]  I can link it below in the description box if you will, if you want to read the entire thing.
[00:02:02]  But I thought to say that I will make another video on homosexuality because I made one a few years ago which wasn't the most enlightened in its nature.
[00:02:14]  So I will make another one stating my positions on the homosexuality question.
[00:02:19]  But what I will say there is, to a certain extent at least, the same thing I said when I discussed the transgender question a few weeks back, and that is that a large component, if we're talking about this sort of thing, is looking at what may have caused an increase in homosexuality, for example in humans.
[00:02:40]  I mean, has there been some environmental impact?
[00:02:45]  Maybe this also works in humans that you know, a child exposed to a lot of mercury as a young boy will turn out to be homosexual.
[00:02:54]  It's a very interesting and important thing to study, in my humble opinion.
[00:03:00]  So, if we're looking upon all of these sort of things I have said it before, I'll say it again I do believe that it has a lot to do with hormonal pollutions, all of these sort of maladies In the modern world, so transgenderism, for example, I'm absolutely certain that it has a lot to do with the body being disrupted, the hormones of the body being disrupted by environmental factors.
[00:03:25]  That would the water we drink is contaminated, the fish we eat perhaps also contaminated.
[00:03:31]  So, this is definitely something I would like to delve deeper into.
[00:03:35]  I would definitely like to see more studies being done upon these sort of things: how what you eat affects what you are, how you turn out.
[00:03:45]  And it makes perfect sense.
[00:03:48]  What you eat is the building blocks of your body, so make sure to eat a good diet.
[00:03:52]  Now, obviously, in the modern world, you don't know what has been contaminated either.
[00:03:56]  You may think that you have a very clean diet consisting of a lot of fish, but if the fish is all contaminated by mercury, yeah, it might not be good for you either.
[00:04:06]  So, anyway, I will elaborate in a coming video, might be next week or something, I will elaborate on the homosexuality question.
[00:04:16]  But until then, it's definitely interesting to study the effects that pollution can have on the biology and psychology of both humans and animals.
[00:04:27]  So, anyway, thank you for watching.