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A love story about gay pengus ntroversy a number of small towns the Amerin heartland.

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GAY PENGUS ADOPT AN EGG AFTER MONTHS OF TRYG TO HATCH ROCKS

Two male pengus at a German zoo were given an egg to cubate, after the gay uple spent months tryg to hatch ston and piec of food. * gay penguins rock *

A gay pengu uple are tryg to hatch an egg together.

Skipper and Pg, a gay pengu uple, re for their adopted egg. 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.

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 rock *

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. Durg LGBTQ Pri week Munich, the cy’s zoo wanted to crease tolerance among humans by showg that same-sex love also happens the animal part of the LGBTQ Pri week celebratns the mosty-Catholic German cy, the zoo anized a tour to show visors that love has nothg to wh genr, no matter what type of zoo spokman Dennis Spaeth felt that ’s important to show that same-sex lovg happens nature bee "unfortunately Germany we see more and more people om the reactnary right attackg LGBTQI rights, ” he said acrdg to science news portal tour passed by some of the zoo’s gayt — as happit — animals: the “giraff [who are] bisexual, ” the blogist Guenter Strss explaed.

"In some groups, 90% of the acts observed are fact homosexual nature, ” he, also all over the Ksey sle, acrdg to Strss, who said, “8% of sex acts among lns are homosexual. As for lns, they only show lbian behavr when they’re kept ptivy, ” he, perhaps the most notable se volved a uple of male Humboldt pengus, who unlike most speci the animal kgdom, “nduct homosexual relatnships that n last a whole lifetime, ” he fact, a uple of black-faced Humboldt pengus the zoo started broodg a rock, sce they have no egg to re forWhich is not unmon for pengus:Last month, the London Zoo mounted a banner above s pengu beach, clarg: “Some pengus are gay. The SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium scrib them as a "same sex pengu power uple" who beme a symbol of Atralia's gay rights movement when they got together 2018.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

A uple of gay pengus at the Munich Zoo are broodg over a rock bee they have no egg to re for. * gay penguins rock *

Not bee they were the lony’s only gay pengus, though they were, but bee Sphen and Magic looked like they would make great, diligent, reful egg-warmg parents. Now the chick of a gay pengu unn is waddlg around an ice enclosure by the touristy docks Sphen and Magic beme a uple, Atralia had jt gone through a bter battle about whether same-sex marriage should be legal. The human gay marriage bate had brought out thorny personal and relig tensns.

Sudnly, though, Atralia’s biggt animal celebri were two gay pengus, which their keepers noticed wh pleasure. Visors now e jt to see the new gay parents, and ask tour guis which were the gay were those who objected to e of the word “gay”. “People said we shouldn’t ll them gay bee maybe they’re jt iends.

A gay pengu uple "kidnapped" a chick at Denmark’s Onse Zoo while the baby’s parents went for a swim, acrdg to a zookeeper, Sandie Hedgegard Munck, said the gay pengus wanted to be parents and likely thought the chick’s mom and dad were beg neglectful, acrdg to Denmark broadster DR. He may have then left, and then the [gay] uple had thought, 'It's a py, we'll take .

GAY PENGU UPLE MUNICH ZOO BROOD OVER A ROCK, PRETEND ’S AN EGG

The two pengus beme a symbol of the Atralian gay rights movement, Nellie Bowl wr * gay penguins rock *

'"The zoo was reportedly gog to let the gay pengus keep the baby if the parents did not e lookg for but, after a day, they eventually nonted the gay uple, and the baby was returned to s blogil pengu "fight" was ught on mera and posted to Facebook by the Onse observg the rg nature of the gay uple, Munck told DR, she cid to give them a send chance at parenthood.

THE STORY OF ATRALIA'S FAMO GAY PENGU UPLE

A gay pengu uple "kidnapped" a chick at Denmark’s Onse Zoo while the baby’s parents went for a swim, acrdg to a zookeeper. * gay penguins rock *

She gave the two male pengus an egg om a female pengu who would not be able to take re of is not the first time gay pengus have ma the news. New York Cy's most famo gay pengu uple has spl worse, one of them has taken up wh a female pengu new to the Central Park Zoo (search), the New York Post and Roy, two male chstrap pengus (search) native to the South Atlantic, ma lol headl six years ago when they me out wh their same-sex then, the pair have succsfully hatched and raised an adopted chick — after tryg to cubate a rock — and bee role mols for six other same-sex upl among pengus at the all end when Scrappy, a sgle female newly arrived om SeaWorld San Diego, ught Silo's eye. Visors to Zagreb's zoo n fd out, wh two g there set asi for humans as of g — which visors will be able to enter and leave at will — are labeled "Homo Sapiens" and are even partially furnished.

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 groups argue that if homosexual behavr occurs animals, is natural, and therefore the rights of homosexuals should be protected.

GAY PENGUS 'KIDNAP' CHICK OM STRAIGHT PARENTS AT DENMARK 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... * gay penguins rock *

''But if homosexualy occurs among animals, do that necsarily mean that is natural for humans, too?

GAY PENGUS BREAK UP

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 rock *

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.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

' ''Then 1999, Bce Bagemihl published ''Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy'' (St. Bagemihl said homosexual behavr had been documented some 450 speci.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

(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.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

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.

FLAP OVER A TALE OF GAY PENGUS

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. 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. 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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

''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. ''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.

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