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• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE AT ATRALIAN ZOO ADOPTS ANOTHER CHICK
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

Gay pengu uple adopt egg together. After uls attempts to hatch ston and fish, a gay pengu uple at a German zoo may fally be able to parent a chick of their own. Jäger said the zoo’s seen plenty of same-sex pengu upl, and now, Skipper and Pg might jo a storied lp of gay pengu parents.

In June, the ZSL London Zoo celebrated longtime lovers Ronnie and Reggie wh a banner that read, “Some pengus are gay.

Gay uplg certaly isn’t limed to pengus.

FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE AT ATRALIAN ZOO ADOPTS ANOTHER CHICK

The SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium scrib them as a "same sex pengu power uple" who beme a symbol of Atralia's gay rights movement when they got together 2018.

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. Standg si by si at the Berl Zoo wh their flippers touchg, they take turns refully ntlg an egg between their feet the hope that will eventually hatch the chick they have both long the two 10-year-olds are both male — and the latt a long succsn of same-sex pengus that have upled up to adopt an zoos London, Atralia and New York, male and female pengus have for years entered same-sex relatnships to cubate eggs to chicks, lightg zookeepers and some visors while stirrg anger and revulsn has bee the latt cy to host a pair of “gay” pengus after Skipper and Pg showed an attractn to each other and a sire to bee parents. Rashed, who is gay, me to Germany four years ago and found a haven.

Germany has one of the world’s hight acceptance rat for homosexualy, and legalized same-sex marriage and granted full adoptn rights 2017. The German far right, however, has been acced of stirrg homophobia recent nursery-school teacher Hannelore Ber said she first heard about the same-sex pengu uple on TV.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

“An animal follows s stcts and s feelgs — jt like humans, too, ” Ber Berl Zoo officials said their pengu uple had so far spired only posive reactns om visors, siar stanc — and even lerature about — have recent years sparked fierce backlash, ernmental bans and relig protts around the forcefulns of that backlash has bee a way to measure “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” said psychiatrist Jt Richardson, -thor of a children’s book that tells the te story of same-sex pengus adoptg an egg at New York’s Central Park Zoo two chstrap pengus — Silo and Roy — were able to succsfully hatch their adopted baby pengu, Tango. “There have been so many challeng to the book around the world — is sometim hard to keep up wh , ” Richardson said a telephone their charmg waddle and tenncy to rema monogamo relatnships, pengus appear to have ronated wh both supporters and opponents of gay rights unlike any other of the more than 450 animal speci that have been observed to show homosexual behavr. Richardson said the backlash to his work is bee this behavr among pengus reaffirms that homosexualy is ed natural and not, as some opponents argue, an unnatural choice.

”Blogists have been more ut about drawg lks between homosexual behavr of animals and humans, sayg that occurrenc of same-sex uplg or matg ruals are rare the animal world and that there is not enough data to say whether members of certa speci, cludg pengus, n be gay. Most likely, animals sometim lled gay public disurse are, fact, bisexual, rearchers say. Meanwhile Poland, the untry’s first openly gay mayor, Robert Biedron, faced right-wg nmnatns for actively promotg the book 2009, as the untry’s LGBT muny was beg more vol.