After uls attempts to hatch ston and fish, a gay pengu uple at a German zoo may fally parent a chick of their own.
Contents:
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- PENGUS HAVE GAY 'FLGS' BEE THEY ARE LONELY - BUT END UP A HETEROSEXUAL UPLE
- A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
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... * homosexuality in penguin *
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.
PENGUS HAVE GAY 'FLGS' BEE THEY ARE LONELY - BUT END UP A HETEROSEXUAL UPLE
(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. 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.
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.
In some s (such as Japane beetl), the cince of homosexualy is low, and not a large part of the animal’s social stcture. But some animals, homosexualy is mon enough to have signifint impacts at the muny level. In addn, homosexualy is pervasive human cultur, om around the world and throughout history.
A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
Recently, blogists at the Universy of Montpelier ( France) nducted a review of 107 societi om around the world, fdg evince of male homosexual preference the majory of societi sampled.
Th, seems fair to nclu that homosexualy is wispread nature— humans and non-human animals.