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Contents:
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
- GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
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The list of gay pengu upl go on and on and spans a wi range of speci.
In the Netherlands, a gay Ain pengu uple recently stole an egg om a lbian pengu uple.
That means ’s difficult to tell male and female pengus apart and even more difficult to intify any wild matg pairs as homosexual. 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.
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
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. (Read about Harry and Pepper, the San Francis Zoo’s Gay Pengus.
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.
Not bee they were the lony’s only gay pengus, though they were, but bee Sphen and Magic looked like they would make great, diligent, reful egg-warmg parents.
THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
Now the chick of a gay pengu unn is waddlg around an ice enclosure by the touristy docks Sphen and Magic beme a uple, Atralia had jt gone through a bter battle about whether gay marriage should be legal.
The human gay marriage bate had brought out thorny personal and relig tensns. Sudnly, though, Atralia’s biggt animal celebri were two gay pengus, which their keepers noticed wh pleasure. Visors now e jt to see the new gay parents, and ask tour guis which were the gay were those who objected to e of the word “gay.
“People said we shouldn’t ll them gay bee maybe they’re jt iends. A gay pengu uple are now proud parents after the egg they had been rg for hatched early last and Lima, two male pengus, are the first same-sex pengu parents at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo Syrace, New York, which is home to an ternatnally renowned Humboldt pengu program.