'In geese you may find a very strong homosexual bond between two malegeese who behave like a [ ] pair even though they cannot copulate. They always forget that the other refuses to be mounted and they try again every spring. Each behaves in a perfectly normal male way and if he could speak he would say, 'I love my wife very much, but she's definitely frigid.'...

"There can be no moral objection to . Many people, however, have an aesthetic, emotional aversion to homosexual behavior. I once saw two boys embrace in a bathroom. The sight was slightly repulsive to me, but in moral terms, why shouldn't they kiss? In an overpopulated world, it would be a good thing if there were more homo- ."

--Goose behavior expert Conrad Loren, November 1974.

[Another mark of the early days: lengthy articles describing studies of . Today, for better or for worse, PSYCHOLOGY TODAY would never print a nine-page story relating the eating habits of the blowfly.--P.D.]