'Gay' Pengu Couple Had No Egg of Their Own. So They Stole One. | Live Science

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Roy is a gay pengu wh a boyiend, Silo. They are a mted male pengu uple that live New York Cy's Central Park Zoo. Pengus are typilly monogamo. The two have built a nt, adopted a fertilized egg and raised a dghter, Tango. A siar story played out at the zoo Kent,

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WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

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

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.

Related: 'Gay' Animals: 10 Alternative Liftyl the WildSome chicks the zoo's pengu brood have already hatched, and animal regivers are keepg a close eye on the male uple, who are takg turns warmg their ill-gotten egg, DutchNews reported.

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

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

Pengus aren't the only birds that form homosexual relatnships.

More than 130 birds speci are known for homosexual behavr, which n clu plex urtship ruals, genal ntact and even ntg together for years, Live Science prevly reported.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

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It has "rocked the gay scene, " as the popular blogger Andrew Sullivan, who is gay, wrote The Sunday Tim of London this one was more disappoted than Rob Gramzay, the senr pengu keeper at the zoo, who said simply an terview yterday, "They seemed to be a good pair together.

"People read so much to the gay thg, and the gay thg is necsarily a human nstrat that's put on top of them. Dobson, who has lled homosexualy a disorr and advot nvertg gays, a mentator, Warren Throckmorten, wrote: "For those who have poted to Roy and Silo as mols for all, the velopments mt be disappotg.

GAY PENGUS PROVE THAT LOVE IS WNG

A gay pengu uple at Berl Zoo has been given an egg to adopt after staff noticed their attempts to hatch ston. * gay penguins central park zoo *

Some gay activists might actually be angry. As Roberta Sklar, a spokwoman for the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, put : "There's almost an obssn wh qutns such as, 'Is sexual orientatn a birthright or a choice? The surprise h of the summer was "March of the Pengus, " part bee was embraced by Christians and nservativ, who see the film pro-fay and Christian Febary, followg protts by gay rights groups, a German zoo abandoned plans to force homosexual pengus there to pair wh femal.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

"Exclive homosexualy is not very mon nature, " he said. And, anyway, he said, "bisexual" would be a better term for animals, addg, "They're sometim scribed as gay animals, but they really aren't.

Like women a nunnery or men on a big Navy ship, there's homosexualy those s.

THE GAY PENGUS OF THE CENTRAL PARK ZOO

It's no more an argument favor of human gay relatnships than is a ll for children to swallow their fish whole or sleep on rocks.

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. </p>Fifteen hundred or so speci of animals - such as dolphs, sheep and those bisexual bonobos - have, let's say, gay tennci.

GAY PENGUS ADOPT EGG AFTER ATTEMPTG TO HATCH STON AT ZOO

None, however, have que ptured our hearts like gay Wells/The Dodo (Shutterstock)Most memorably, crowds flocked to the Central Park Zoo for a chance to spot Roy and Silo, a pair of male chstrap pengu lovers who famoly adopted an egg and raised a dghter, Tango, together. Roy and Silo spired polarized polil bate and (highly censored) children's books the famo lovebirds weren't the first gay pengu uple - not even at their own zoo (that would be Geey and Mickey, two lady gentoos). Documentatn of pengu homosexualy (or, at least, heteroflexibily) go back to 1911, when a Brish Antarctic expedn tailed the "pravy" of the Adélie pengus - though this sndalo report was only brought to light 2012.

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Alternately, gay pengu upl who have been allowed to adopt eggs or chicks (om straight pengus who dched them, no ls) have proved to be diligent parents - like Roy and Silo, or Germany's Z and Vielpunkt. After uls attempts to hatch ston and fish, a gay pengu uple at a German zoo may fally be able to parent a chick of their own. Jäger said the zoo’s seen plenty of same-sex pengu upl, and now, Skipper and Pg might jo a storied lp of gay pengu parents.

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Gay pengus raise newly hatched chick at New York zoo .

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