ABSTRACT
I still cringe at the memory of seeing old D-ram mount S-ram repeatedly … True to form, and incapable of absorbing this realisation at once, I called these actions of the rams aggressosexual behaviour, for to state that the males had evolved a homosexual society was emotionally beyond me. To conceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers’ – Oh God! I argued for two years that, in [wild mountain] sheep, aggressive and sexual behaviour could not be separated … I never published that drivel and am glad of it … Eventually I called the spade a spade and admitted that rams lived in essentially a homosexual society. (Geist 2002, 97–8, The Blackburn Press)
