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- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- PENGUS HAVE GAY 'FLGS' BEE THEY ARE LONELY - BUT END UP A HETEROSEXUAL UPLE
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
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.
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. Pengus have gay 'flgs' bee they are lonely - but end up a heterosexual uple Pengus do not form long-term homosexual relatnships spe same-sex flirtg, a new study has found.
PENGUS HAVE GAY 'FLGS' BEE THEY ARE LONELY - BUT END UP A HETEROSEXUAL UPLE
New rearch suggts that male pengus mate wh same-sex partners out of a lack of female alternativ Gay ‘flirtg’ uld also be due to high levels of ttosterone wh the lony among team om the Centre for Functnal and Evolutnary Elog Montpellier, France studied kg pengus on the Antarctic island of Kerguelen to better unrstand their matg the matg season kg pengus displayed wh potential partners by closg their ey, stretchg their heads skyward and then lookg at each their study the rearchers found that 28. 'I found that the rate of homosexually displayg pairs was signifintly lower than one would expect by chance. There have been prev reports of exclive male-to-male pairgs among pengus, some of which have also clud the rearg of year two 'gay' male pengus hatched a chick and reared as s adoptive parents at a German zoo bee there were no female pengus zoo, Bremerhaven, northern Germany, said the adult mal - Z and Vielpunkt - were given an egg which was rejected by s blogil parents.