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:
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
- CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
- THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
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. * are there gay penguins *
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. 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.
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.
GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
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... * are there gay penguins *
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. Gay pengu uple adopt egg together. 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. In June, the ZSL London Zoo celebrated longtime lovers Ronnie and Reggie wh a banner that read, “Some pengus are gay. Gay uplg certaly isn’t limed to pengus.
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). Songwrer Cole, who first h big the 1920s, wouldn't risk paradg his homosexualy public.
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
Zoologists are disverg that homosexual and bisexual activy is not unknown wh the animal and Silo, two male chstrap pengus at New York's Central Park Zoo have been separable for six years now. Filmmakers recently went search of homosexual wild animals as part of a Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer documentary about the female's role the matg game. "The homosexual behavr that go on is pletely bafflg and trigug, " says Natnal Geographic Ultimate Explorer rrponnt, Mireya Mayor.
"Well, perhaps, a roundabout way, they are seekg mal, suggts primatologist Amy argu that female maqu may enhance their social posn through homosexual timacy which turn fluenc breedg succs. He believ bonobos e sex to rolve nflicts between animals appear to go through a homosexual phase before they bee fully mature.
A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
The fact that homosexualy do, after all, exist the natural world is bound to be ed agast people who sist such behavr is the U.
Many on the relig right regard homosexualy as a s. And only this month, Print Bh vowed to ntue his bid to ban gay marriag after the Senate blocked the proposal. Already, s of animal homosexualy have been ced succsful urt s brought agast stat like Texas, where gay sex was, until recently, scientists say we should be wary of referrg to animals when nsirg what's acceptable human society.
For stance, fantici, as practiced by lns and many other animals, isn't somethg people, gay or straight, generally approve of HomosexualySo how far n we go g animals to help unrstand human homosexualy? "The bottom le is that anythg that happens other primat, and particularly other ap, is likely to have strong evolutnary ntuy wh what happens humans, " he says the bonobo's e of homosexual activy for social bondg is a possible example, addg, "One of the ma arguments for human homosexual behavr is that helps bond male groups together, particularly where a group of dividuals are pennt on each other, as they might be huntg or warfare. "For stance, the Spartans, ancient Greece, enuraged homosexualy among their ele troops.
CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
Another suggtn is that homosexualy is a velopmental phase people go through. "But he adds that homosexualy don't necsarily have to have a functn.
However, as Dunbar adms, there's a long way to go before the of homosexualy humans are fully said, "Nobody's really vtigated this issue thoroughly, bee 's so polilly sensive. Humans are not the only animal to engage homosexual behavr.
THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
Giraff, monkeys, lns, and even dolphs have all exhibed homosexual tras. But what about pengus, n they be gay? Y, pengus n be gay and have been observed engagg homosexual behavr the wild and ptivy.