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A gay pengu uple are now proud parents after the egg they had been rg for hatched early last month.

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WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

Stori of homosexual behavr among pengus are well-documented and well-loved. But somebody's jt ed them for . 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... * penguin gay term *

The list of gay pengu upl go on and on and spans a wi range of speci.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

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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).

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

The most awome type of pengu z when straight pengus abandon their babys a gay pengu uple will adopt them." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * penguin gay term *

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.

GAY PENGU

After uls attempts to hatch ston and fish, a gay pengu uple at a German zoo may fally parent a chick of their own. * penguin gay term *

(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. Trever Clement is almost as gay as the:D October 31, 2004Get the Pengu mug.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

First me Roy and Silo and their children's book, And Tango Mak Three. Then Buddy and Pedro ma headl as a "gay" pengu uple (the term don’t normally apply to animals) that was beg separated by the Toronto Zoo. * penguin gay term *

Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a b, gay pengus.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

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 groups argue that if homosexual behavr occurs animals, is natural, and therefore the rights of homosexuals should be protected. ''But if homosexualy occurs among animals, do that necsarily mean that is natural for humans, too?

And that rais a faiar qutn: if homosexualy is not a choice, but a rult of natural forc that nnot be ntrolled, n be immoral? The open discsn of homosexual behavr animals is relatively new.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

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. ' ''Then 1999, Bce Bagemihl published ''Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy'' (St. Bagemihl said homosexual behavr had been documented some 450 speci.

(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.

Bagemihl scrib homosexual activy a broad spectm of animals. 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.

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

Their bonds, too, may persist for mammals, male and female bottlenose dolphs equently engage homosexual activy, both ptivy and the wild.

‘GAY’ PENGU PAIR ADOPT A BABY CHICK CHA

Homosexualy is particularly mon among young male dolph lv.

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Gay pengus raise newly hatched chick at New York zoo .

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