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Contents:

• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
• PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA
• GAY PENGUS BREAK UP
• ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• GAY PENGUS 'KIDNAP' CHICK OM STRAIGHT PARENTS AT DENMARK ZOO
• OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!
• PRI 2019: LONDON ZOO GAY PENGUS JO LGBT EVENT
• GAY PENGU UPLE BEE FIRST-TIME DADS AT NEW YORK ZOO
• GAY PENGUS SPHEN AND MAGIC HELP CHILDREN UNRSTAND SEXUALY SYLLAB
• GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL
• THE STORY OF ATRALIA'S FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE
• GAY PENGU UPLE’S WILL-THEY-WON’T-THEY RELATNSHIP TAK DRAMATIC NEW TWIST
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.
• WATCH: GAY PENGU COUPLE KIDNAP CHICK, GET EGG OF THEIR OWN TO RAISE
• GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPT EGG TOGETHER
• GAY PENGU COUPLE ADOPT ABANDONED EGG AT BERL ZOO
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• REPORT: THUNR WAIVE VETERAN F RUDY GAY
• FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK ABOUT REAL-LIFE GAY PENGU RELATNSHIP, CG PARENTAL RIGHTS LAW
• THIS MORNG VIEWERS SWOON OVER A UPLE OF GAY PENGUS WHO HAVE BEEN LOVE FOR SEVEN YEARS
• GAY PENGU ‘POWER UPLE’ SPHEN AND MAGIC CELEBRATE TONE AND MAYBE TE LOVE DO EXIST
• GAY PENGUS ADOPT EGG AFTER ATTEMPTG TO HATCH STON AT ZOO
• THIS GAY PENGU WEDDG IS EVERYTHG WE NEED ON VALENTE’S DAY
• SGAPORE BANS CHILDREN'S BOOK FEATURG GAY PENGU COUPLE

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

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. 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. 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.

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. But a fascatg sequel to the book (a sequel that has not been add to this children's rear), one of the "gay" pengus end up leavg his partner and takg up wh a good-lookg female pengu om California – and fatherg a chick.

New York Cy's most famo gay pengu uple has spl worse, one of them has taken up wh a female pengu new to the Central Park Zoo (search), the New York Post and Roy, two male chstrap pengus (search) native to the South Atlantic, ma lol headl six years ago when they me out wh their same-sex then, the pair have succsfully hatched and raised an adopted chick — after tryg to cubate a rock — and bee role mols for six other same-sex upl among pengus at the all end when Scrappy, a sgle female newly arrived om SeaWorld San Diego, ught Silo's eye. Visors to Zagreb's zoo n fd out, wh two g there set asi for humans as of g — which visors will be able to enter and leave at will — are labeled "Homo Sapiens" and are even partially furnished.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

“In my long reer, there has never been an edor who was more precise, more astute, more mandg, and yet more enuragg, ” says Gay Tale, who published Unto the Sons and A Wrer’s Life wh Segal. 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. 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.

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

”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. 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 gay marriage should be legal.

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

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). 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 "kidnapped" a chick at Denmark’s Onse Zoo while the baby’s parents went for a swim, acrdg to a zookeeper, Sandie Hedgegard Munck, said the gay pengus wanted to be parents and likely thought the chick’s mom and dad were beg neglectful, acrdg to Denmark broadster DR.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

'"The zoo was reportedly gog to let the gay pengus keep the baby if the parents did not e lookg for but, after a day, they eventually nonted the gay uple, and the baby was returned to s blogil pengu "fight" was ught on mera and posted to Facebook by the Onse observg the rg nature of the gay uple, Munck told DR, she cid to give them a send chance at parenthood. [Florida’s] HB 1557 … wily known as the “don’t say gay” bill, prohibs classroom stctn on “sexual orientatn or genr inty” gras krgarten through three or a manner that is not “age-appropriate. The signage honourg Stonewall's Get Over It mpaign will be erected at the 93-strong pengus' beach Regent's and Reggie, a uple sce 2014, live on the beach wh fellow gay upl Nadja and Zimmer and Dev and Mart.

PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA

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. 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.

GAY PENGUS BREAK UP

”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. 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 Sphen and Magic help children unrstand sexualy syllabAn openly gay pengu uple are sharg their story to teach young primary school stunts about same-sex love pengus Sphen and Magic are givg NSW children as young as four an sight to same-sex relatnships after the openly gay uple succsfully raised their chick, Lara. ”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.

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

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 .

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 same-sex marriage should be legal. ) Yet Florida’s Lake County School District has reportedly termed that such facts are forbidn to young children unr the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law engeered by Florida Gov. It has "rocked the gay scene, " as the popular blogger Andrew Sullivan, who is gay, wrote The Sunday Tim of London this one was more disappoted than Rob Gramzay, the senr pengu keeper at the zoo, who said simply an terview yterday, "They seemed to be a good pair together.

GAY PENGUS 'KIDNAP' CHICK OM STRAIGHT PARENTS AT DENMARK ZOO

Dobson, who has lled homosexualy a disorr and advot nvertg gays, a mentator, Warren Throckmorten, wrote: "For those who have poted to Roy and Silo as mols for all, the velopments mt be disappotg. As Roberta Sklar, a spokwoman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, put : "There's almost an obssn wh qutns such as, 'Is sexual orientatn a birthright or a choice?

The surprise h of the summer was "March of the Pengus, " part bee was embraced by Christians and nservativ, who see the film pro-fay and Christian Febary, followg protts by gay rights groups, a German zoo abandoned plans to force homosexual pengus there to pair wh femal. However, most gay pengus eventually end up straight readg to fd out more about homosexualy pengus and how zoos have evolved their approach to alg wh . His report lled ‘Sexual habs of the Adélie pengu’, which tailed how unpaired mal and femal engaged homosexual behavr, was prted 1915 but was cled for publitn as was nsired too shockg at the time1 (source: D.

For example, after realisg that three out of five pairs of pengus were homosexual relatnships, Bremerhaven Zoo Germany imported four femal om Swen to try and tempt the mal2 (source: The Guardian) move sparked outrage among the LGBT muny Germany.

OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!

Out of the 91 Humboldt pengus at London Zoo, there are 3 gay upl; Ronnie and Reggie, Nadja and Zimmer, and Dev and Mart3 (source: Mashable) is more likely for male pengus to be gay than female pengus.

Studi have shown that most gay pengus eventually end up turng straight5 (source: Daily Mail) example, Toronto Zoo’s gay Ain pengus, Buddy and Pedro, ma headl after they both end up heterosexual partnerships and fathered their own chicks6 (source: Toronto Star). Some of them might well be, and that would be if “gay” animals were like gay humans havg an eluctable attractn to uple and pair wh members of the same sex.

In jails, for stance, mal and femal might engage same-sex relatnships, but not bee they’re “gay” the nventnal way, but bee that is the only outlet they have for their heterosexual urg. The New York Tim says this explicly, and impli that this somehow vdit homosexualy humans (look at the first sentence, which impli that heterosexualy might be some kd of “hangup”):. 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 .

PRI 2019: LONDON ZOO GAY PENGUS JO LGBT EVENT

I have no prejudice agast gay humans, and have always promoted equal treatment and rights for gay upl, cludg marriage and everythg that go for heterosexual upl.

A gay kg pengu uple at the Onse Zoo Denmark kidnapped a pengu chick om another uple, likely after wnsg the uple neglect their Hegård Munck, a zookeeper, told the Danish broadster DR that the female pengu had gone to get a bath, and so the male pengu was supposed to watch the chick.

For example, as one parent is off tchg fish, the other will be protectg the the gay uple kidnapped the chick, the father walked around as if had never had a child and the mother searched for the is not the first time a pengu chick kidnappg has occurred.

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

Of those upl, two homosexual pairs had learned the song of their partner, which is an important step the pairg zookeepers at the Onse Zoo eventually took the chick back om the gay uple and brought to s origal parents, which led to a fight that was ptured on mera and posted on the Onse Zoo Facebook page, shown above. 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. 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.

Ined, scientists have found homosexual behavr throughout the animal growg body of science has been creasgly drawn to charged bat about homosexualy Amerin society, on subjects om gay marriage to sodomy laws, spe reluctance om experts the field to extrapolate om animals to humans.

GAY PENGUS SPHEN AND MAGIC HELP CHILDREN UNRSTAND SEXUALY SYLLAB

Female bonobos have been observed to engage homosexual activy almost his own book, ''Amerin scientists who vtigated bonobos never discsed sex at all, '' said Mr. (Homosexualy, he says, refers to any of the behavrs between members of the same sex: long-term bondg, sexual ntact, urtship displays or the rearg of young. ''Sexual Exuberance'' was also ced 2000 by gay rights groups opposed to Ballot Measure 9, a proposed Oregon statute prohibg teachg about homosexualy or bisexualy public schools.

He asserts that while same-sex behavr is sometim found ptivy, is actually seen more equently studi of animals the birds, for stance, studi show that 10 to 15 percent of female wtern gulls some populatns the wild are homosexual.

Rearchers have noted that some s same-sex behavr is more mon for dolphs and female rh maqu, a type of monkey, also exhib homosexualy ptivy and the wild. Vasey, a profsor of psychology and nroscience at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada, who studi homosexual behavr Japane maqu, is edg a new book on homosexual behavr animals, to be published by Cambridge Universy Prs. Marlene Z, a profsor of blogy at the Universy of California at Riversi and thor of ''Sexual Selectns: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex From Animals'' (Universy of California Prs, 2002), not that scientists have speculated that homosexualy may have an evolutnary purpose, ensurg the survival of the speci.

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

''That is a ntributn to the gene pool, '' she Ja Mann, a profsor of blogy and psychology at Geetown Universy, who has studied same-sex behavr dolph lv, their homosexualy ''is about bond formatn, '' she said, ''not about beg sexual for life. The homosexual behavr of the young lv ''uld be practicg'' for that later, ccial adult perd, she, scientists say, jt bee homosexualy is observed animals don't mean that is only geilly based. The two that differ most om each other are most siar their homosexual Z said, ''You have clatns that are more or ls supported by our gen and some environmental circumstanc get exprsed.

Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now.

Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game. "Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs. Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society.

THE STORY OF ATRALIA'S FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE

For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy? "The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare. However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive.

GAY PENGU UPLE’S WILL-THEY-WON’T-THEY RELATNSHIP TAK DRAMATIC NEW TWIST

Prgle, and Ferrari, two gay Humboldt pengus who have been together for seven years, paid Dermot O'Leary and Alison Hammond a vis on today's Valente's Day-themed showFerrari and Prgle ma a grand entrance on the show, wh 'I Will Always Love You' by Whney Hoton blastg the background.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

A gay pengu uple at Berl Zoo has been given an egg to adopt after staff noticed their attempts to hatch two Kg pengus, Skipper and Pg, were given the egg last month, German news agency dpa reports. 'GAY PENGUINS' TO RAISE FIRST CHICK; GIVEN FOSTER EGG AT SYDNEY AQUARIUMZoo staff had noted signs that the two pengus wanted an egg and had been attemptg to hatch fish and ston, acrdg to the dpa report. (Photo by Taylan Gökalp/picture alliance via Getty Imag)Berl Zoo spokman Maxiian Jaeger told dpa that is unclear whether the egg is fertilized, but if is, then would take 55 days for a baby pengu to pair have bee somethg of a sensatn on social SWANS ATTACK ANYONE THREATENING THEIR NEST CONTAINING A PLASTIC CUPHomosexualy has been documented a host of different animal speci, such as Roy and Silo, the famo gay pengus at New York’s Central Park Zoo.

After tryg to cubate a rock, the two male chstrap pengus succsfully hatched and raised an adopted pengus have been known to steal eggs om straight birds an attempt to bee ‘fathers, ’ acrdg to The HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPLast year, two gay male swans were taken to an animal rerve after attackg several people at an Atrian lake an apparent attempt to protect their nt.

”Notably, the other two children’s books banned by Sgapore -- “The Whe Swan Exprs: A Story About Adoptn” and “Who’s In My Fay: All About Our Fai -- also feature gay and lbian characters. Sgapore's penal clus a sectn crimalizg homosexual acts, though is rarely Sgaporeans took to Twter to prott the cisn to bar the books om the llectn, g the hashtag #FreeMyLibrary.

GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.

Zoo officials forcibly separated the two to pair them wh femal as part of a speci survival plan for the endangered BLINCH / Rters, fileIN-DEPTHGay pengus have a place school librari?

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GAY PENGUS ADOPT EGG AFTER ATTEMPTG TO HATCH STON AT ZOO

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