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Stori of homosexual behavr among pengus are well-documented and well-loved. But somebody's jt ed them for . For a while, Roy and Silo, a pair of male Chstrap pengus New York Zoo, were the world’s most famo gay uple, buildg a nt together and even hatchg and rearg...

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ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

Some homosexually displayg mal eventually paired wh femal, but such mal were...

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

In this ntext, ’s particularly serendipo that the Humboldt pengu is named after the Humboldt ocean current (off the wt ast of South Ameri), which self is named after the Pssian naturalist Alexanr von Humboldt, who himself the evince dit to have been homosexual (or possibly bisexual). Stori of homosexual behavr among pengus are well-documented and well-loved.

For a while, Roy and Silo, a pair of male Chstrap pengus New York Zoo, were the world’s most famo gay uple, buildg a nt together and even hatchg and rearg abandoned chick named Tango. Stephen Dobson, one of the thors of the study published the journal Ethology, said that when he observed the lony over time he found that all the “gay” pengus chose a heterosexual partner eventually and that female pairs would also “spl up” to raise an egg wh a male partner. Some homosexually displayg mal eventually paired wh femal, but such mal were signifintly slower heterosexual pairg than mal that did not display homosexually.

FOUR GAY PENGUS UPLE UP AT LONDON AQUARIUM FOR MATG SEASON

Fally, the equency of homosexually displayg pairs was signifintly lower than expected om random assortment of displayg birds, for both mal and femal. A populatn sex‐rat bias favor of mal and high ncentratn of male sex hormon may help to expla non‐reproductive homosexually displayg pairs. In the Netherlands, a gay Ain pengu uple recently stole an egg om a lbian pengu uple.

THE LONDON ZOO CELEBRAT GAY MATG, GAY ANIMALS, GAY PENGUS & GAY PARENTS

That means ’s difficult to tell male and female pengus apart and even more difficult to intify any wild matg pairs as homosexual.

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