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Contents:

• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• CAN A FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BAN A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS?
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.
• ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• OPN AVOIDG OUR ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK? BETTER STEER CLEAR OF THE KIDS’ CLASSICS, TOO!
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

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. 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.

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.

CAN A FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BAN A CHILDREN'S BOOK ABOUT GAY PENGUS?

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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

“People said we shouldn’t ll them gay bee maybe they’re jt iends. Well, for one reason, ’s bee Skip and Pg are perceived as “gay pengus”, sce they’re a same-sex uple.

And if you Google “gay pengus”, you’ll see a bazilln articl that characterize the uple that way, although blogists would e “same-sex uple”.

GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.

Here’s a screenshot of jt a few the many pag you get when you do a Google image search for “gay pengus:. I thk one of the reason people like this so much is bee seems to vdit the fact that gay upl or gay behavr is fe humans—bee occurs nature.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

And of urse same-sex uplg do occur nature, but should we anthropomorphize by llg “gay”? In fact, gay humans are fe, but not bee there are “gay pengus. 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.

But the animals, by analogy wh humans, are neverthels emed “gay”, and whout any qualifitns. 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”):.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

Homosexualy 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 homosexualy.

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.

WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN

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. Maybe they really do have the same feelgs for each other as do human gay upl, but we jt don’t know.

The big story here, to the media, was not same-sex rearg of an egg, which after all is not that rare, but “gay pengus”. 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.

(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.

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

After prev reports of homosexual pengus, the birds seem to be an in of aberrant sexual practice.

But headl asi, new rearch shows there’s relatively ltle to the ia of pengu homosexualy.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

The study of “homosexualy” kg pengus is the first of s kd, revealg that nearly thirty percent of pengu “displays”—a urtship behavr—occur homosexual ntexts.

That proportn is important bee some scientists have prevly suggted that pengu homosexual displays are simply due to difficulty the pengus may have tellg their male and female peers apart.

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

But the proportn of homosexual displays is lower than what would be expected were all enunters by chance, suggtg that somethg else is at play. Dpe the homosexual displays, only two pairs of pengus bond (meang that they learned one another’s lls) homosexually, out of a total of seventy-five pairs; but all four “homosexuals” were later observed heterosexual relatnships. The subject of homosexualy nature has bee a ntroversial topic bee some groups have argued (implicly or explicly) that homosexualy nature shows that homosexualy humans is morally acceptable (see “Proposed Gay Curriculum Cs Problems”).

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. Why are pengus so gay?

Y, we’re talkg about the gay pengus at an Oceanarium Europe’s gay pal… Bournemouth. Earlier this week (July 4), was announced that the homo pengus – Diego and Zorro, who currently occupy the top 0. At this pot you might be wonrg: what mak pengus so gay?

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

As for the tenncy for pengus to fe gay relatnships: “This has been observed much more ptivy than the wild, ” Napoli suggts, makg zoos the animal kgdom’s dark room. While they do exist nature, ptive pengus are apparently more likely to be gay bee of limed matg optns, or bee they’re young and “experimentg”. Neverthels, gay pengus seem to pop up everywhere – Diego and Zorro aren’t the only members of the avian BLT muny.

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

As if their nam weren’t already a giveaway, other queer uplgs clu Sydney’s Sphen and Magic (hontly, llg them f****** would be ls homophobic), New York’s Elmer and Lima, and the famo Roy and Silo, who are no doubt masc4masc.

So what’s wh all the gay pengus?