Dr Caitlin Creak

Now, the reason why I say that the dominant and passive perception there is incorrect is that they later discovered that with this species, the one underneath was quite willing to go through with this interaction.

50% of the chance he was actually the larger of the two and would easily have been able to overpower the one on top.

We have seen this homosexual mating behaviour recorded in flies, crickets, termites.

Most of the time in the papers that I was reading, it was always labelled as a case of mistaken identity, which I think is quite limiting and technically incorrect.

We're now quite lucky that a lot of very recent papers have started coming out with a better evolutionary framework for this kind of thing.

Termites who actually form like male-male pairs and exhibit all of the same courting sexual behaviour that a male-female pair would exhibit.

If they want to have a baby later, then they will bring in a female.

Someone sometimes gets sacrificed, but we'll just ignore that for now.

That's okay.

And with that, I'm going to hand the baton over to Cody.