Gay pengus: Same-sex pengu uple Berl Zoo adopts egg - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• GAY PENGU UPLE BEE FIRST-TIME DADS AT NEW YORK ZOO
• THE STORY OF ATRALIA'S FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE
• GAY MALE PENGUS STEAL LBIAN UPLE'S EGGS AT DUTCH ZOO
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

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.

“I knew homosexualy existed the animal world but I had never heard of gay adoptn the animal world, ” Schmidt said. Homosexualy is mon the animal kgdom.

The posive support Skip and Pg have gotten so far seems to be a sign of the tim and “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” Richardson tells the Washgton Post’s Rick Noack and Luisa Beck. 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.

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

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

We love gay dads, tly! The of urse are not the first gay pengus. RELATED | More Gay Daddi Are Comg, Says Survey.

GAY PENGU UPLE BEE FIRST-TIME DADS AT NEW YORK ZOO

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. 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 same-sex 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. The gay pengus strike aga. A pair of two male Ain pengus at a Dutch zoo, who ma ternatnal headl last year when they stole an egg om a heterosexual uple, have now stolen the nt of a lbian duo, DierenPark Amsersfoort said a Facebook pengu-gay uple om DierenPark Amersfoort took a nt om a lbian pengu uple this year.

THE STORY OF ATRALIA'S FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE

Zookeeper Sanr Drost told Dutch News that the gay uple is takg turns stg on the eggs to keep them warm. “Every uple has a hoe the rince, but this uple has appropriated two ho, ” he November last year, the two gay pengus took an egg om a straight uple who let their guards down, RTC Utrecht reported. The egg failed to bear a child, and the gay uple have yet to raise a chick together.

Another gay pengu uple at a Denmark zoo kidnapped a chick two years ago while s mother was swimmg.

GAY MALE PENGUS STEAL LBIAN UPLE'S EGGS AT DUTCH ZOO

What staffers didn't expect though, acrdg to the Atralian Associated Prs, was that two sets of totally fabulo gay pengu uncl would start dotg on the aquarium's only Gentoo chick of the season like, well, two totally fabulo gay uncl. "Both Tiger and Branston and Kls and Jon are thrilled to play the role of fabulo uncl to baby Chips, " staff at the Sea Life Aquarium said of the tuxedoed gay uncl a statement to the pengus are generally monogamo durg the matg and breedg season, and Bisey and Tuna have been around the block more than once together. "(They) have been a uple for a few years now, and have bred and raised chicks the past, " the aquarium strong bond is bad news for Tiger and Branston, and Kls and Jon, leavg the two isky gay upl out the ld when to qualy uncle-nephew time.

"The parents will raise the chick together and they polely cle offers om the rt of the lony, " the aquarium said relatnships between pengus are not unmon, and sce pengus n only hatch one egg at a time, the gay pairs are often lled upon to foster and raise extra eggs. Celebry gay pengu uple Sphen and Magic, known llectively as Sphengic, have already hatched two eggs together at the Sea Life Aquarium Sydney. RELATED | Gay Pengu 'Power Couple' Tryg for Their Send Child.

Related: 'Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Liftyl the WildSome chicks the zoo's pengu brood have already hatched, and animal regivers are keepg a close eye on the male uple, who are takg turns warmg their ill-gotten egg, DutchNews reported. Pengus aren't the only birds that form homosexual relatnships.

'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.

More than 130 birds speci are known for homosexual behavr, which n clu plex urtship ruals, genal ntact and even ntg together for years, Live Science prevly reported. CHICAGO (BP)–A children’s book based on a te story about two “gay pengus” is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact — the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt wh the oppose sex. “Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said.

The book was published before the two pengus Throckmorton, associate profsor of psychology at Grove Cy College Pennsylvania, joked that Silo was the “world’s first ex-gay pengu. ”“At tim gay activists will e the animal kgdom to support the lk between naturalism and human sexualy, and yet when Silo … took up wh a female pengu, the gay activists were downplayg the importance of that, ” Throckmorton told Baptist Prs.

”Several years ago, when the news about Roy and Silo’s “gay relatnship broke, ” liberal activists quickly poted to as a supportg argument for “gay marriage” the human world. “Ined, if homosexual marriag exist the animal kgdom, they mt be normal. ”But Throckmorton said neher si of the “gay marriage” bate should “read too much to” the relatnship between Roy and Silo — whether the two pengus are together or apart.

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

” –30– For rmatn about the natnal bate over “gay marriage, ” vis. 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. 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.

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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

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. “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.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

”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.

GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL

”The prospect of two gay pengus adoptg an egg and raisg a chick has bee a feel good story Germany recent days. “I knew homosexualy existed the animal world but I had never heard of gay adoptn the animal world, ” Ms. ”VioTwo pengus, Skip and Pg, were nurturg objects like fish and rocks until Berl zookeepers gave them an egg, raisg the prospect of the zoo’s first pengu chick sce Msger/EPA, via ShutterstockHomosexualy has been observed a number of speci of animals, who tend to have fewer hangups than humans.

But gay pengus seem to be unually proment the world of animal have been same-sex pengu upl at many zoos, cludg the Central Park Zoo New York, Sea Life Sydney Aquarium Atralia and regnal zoos or aquariums Denmark and then there is the London Zoo, which June celebrated Pri month — and s six gay Humboldt pengus — wh a banner the pengu exhib that said “Some pengus are gay, get over . ”If there are any other gay animals at the Berl zoo, the zookeepers said they had not ma themselv publicly known.

“We don’t know if there are any other gay animals this zoo, ” Mr. Surrogacy is banned, which means gay male upl particular tend to rely on adoptn when they want to start a fay.