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Contents:

• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• GAY PENGU
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• ‘GAY’ PENGU PAIR ADOPT A BABY CHICK CHA

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.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

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). 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 PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

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

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 PENGU

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. 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.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

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.

Their bonds, too, may persist for mammals, male and female bottlenose dolphs equently engage homosexual activy, both ptivy and the wild. Homosexualy is particularly mon among young male dolph lv. 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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

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. ''Some scientists say homosexual behavr animals is not necsarily about sex.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

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. By not producg their own offsprg, homosexuals may help support or nurture their relativ' young.

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

''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.

‘GAY’ PENGU PAIR ADOPT A BABY CHICK CHA

''Homosexualy is extraordarily plex and variable, '' Mr. 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.

''In Nazi Germany, one very mon terpretatn of homosexualy was that was animalistic behavr, subhuman, '' he the animal studi do show, Ms.