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Contents:

• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• THE GAY PENGUS N’T STOP STEALG OTHER BIRDS’ EGGS
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.
• GAY ANIMALS
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

That means ’s difficult to tell male and female pengus apart and even more difficult to intify any wild matg pairs as homosexual. 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).

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.

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

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. “I knew homosexualy existed the animal world but I had never heard of gay adoptn the animal world, ” Schmidt said. The posive support Skip and Pg have gotten so far seems to be a sign of the tim and “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” Richardson tells the Washgton Post’s Rick Noack and Luisa Beck.

Over the past 20 years, a burst of rearch — driven part by a new generatn of scientists more acceptg of queerns — has shown signifint amounts of prevly unreported homosexual behavr throughout the animal kgdom, om flour beetl to gorillas.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

While few animals are exclively “gay” or “lbian, ” an extraordary number, appears, engage some form of same-sex relatns. Christian theologians have long poted to the absence of animal homosexualy as evince that humans oughtn’t to be dog , eher.

Thirteenth-century philosopher and prit Thomas Aquas argued that homosexual behavr humans is wrong precisely bee don’t occur between animals. Gee Murray Levick, the explorer who wrote about homosexual behavr Adélie pengus 1911, shield his observatns of pengu “pravy” om sual observers by rerdg them his field not g the Greek alphabet — and they were still cut om the official expedn reports. A proment mammalogist, Valeri Geist, uldn’t help but notice equent homosexual sex at his bighorn sheep field se the 1960s, but Geist avoid publishg those fdgs bee ma him “crge … to nceive of those magnificent beasts as ‘queers.

’ ” Years later he relented, wrg that he eventually “admted that the rams lived sentially a homosexual society.

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

The fact that a bird populatn wh many bond femal sharg a few mal between them would have higher reproductive output led historian and ornhologist Jared Diamond to dryly wonr whether “further study of homosexually paired female birds may help clarify what, if anythg, mal are good for — an evolutnary sense, of urse. ” In social animals, the logic go, absolute homosexualy would produce no offsprg, but absolute heterosexualy uld also be limg, as might make for an anism that is “poor at formg social allianc.

“The bisexual advantage mol, ” Savolaen nclus, “is perhaps the most nservative geic explanatn for the persistence of homosexual behavr. Therefore, aversn to homosexual sex would have had to specifilly arise over the history of life, which this team of rearchers fds unlikely, sce the opportuny st of same-sex sex is relatively low.

The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal. (As one gay weekly newspaper joked, “Grdr has announced a new gay cisg app for dolphs, lled Flippr.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

Vasey and his team methodilly tted the var theori that have been proposed for the persistence of homosexual sex the monkeys: that the femal were exprsg domance; that they were barterg for parental re; that they were rencilg after a fight; or (my personal favore) that they were stagg sexual enunters to exce nearby mal, what I’d ll the “you wish, guys” theory of monkey lbianism.

THE GAY PENGUS N’T STOP STEALG OTHER BIRDS’ EGGS

Sodomy laws stayed on the books until 2003, when the Supreme Court led them unnstutnal — aid by an amic brief cg the rearch that had e out the meantime documentg homosexual activy among might have known about the sheer diversy of animal sexualy a long time ago if we, as a culture, had managed to lower our blrs. Electra and Vla are not the first gay pengus, nor are they the first same-sex uple to cubate, hatch, and raise a chick. A 2010 study entled Homosexual Matg Displays Pengus that appeared the journal Ethology noted that "same-sex urtship displays were mon (28.

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. 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.

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. 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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

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.

Frh off their botched theft of a heterosexual pengu uple’s eggs, opportunistic gay pengus the Netherlands have now turned to snatchg the potential offsprg of lbian birds. “Homosexualy is fairly mon pengus, but what mak this uple remarkable is that they have gotten hold of an egg, ” said zookeeper Marc Belt at the time.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

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 gay marriage should be legal. 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. When given abandoned eggs by zookeepers, gay pengus n hatch and raise young chicks jt as well as heterosexual upl. However, most gay pengus eventually end up straight readg to fd out more about homosexualy pengus and how zoos have evolved their approach to alg wh .

N durg the Brish Antarctic Expedn report lled ‘Sexual habs of the Adélie pengu’, which tailed how unpaired mal and femal engaged homosexual behavr, was prted 1915 but was cled for publitn as was nsired too shockg at the time1 (source: D. For example, after realisg that three out of five pairs of pengus were homosexual relatnships, Bremerhaven Zoo Germany imported four femal om Swen to try and tempt the mal2 (source: The Guardian) move sparked outrage among the LGBT muny Germany.

GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.

Gay pengus n be found zoos and aquariums Cha, the Uned Kgdom, Germany, the Uned Stat, and other untri. Out of the 91 Humboldt pengus at London Zoo, there are 3 gay upl; Ronnie and Reggie, Nadja and Zimmer, and Dev and Mart3 (source: Mashable) is more likely for male pengus to be gay than female pengus. Studi have shown that most gay pengus eventually end up turng straight5 (source: Daily Mail) example, Toronto Zoo’s gay Ain pengus, Buddy and Pedro, ma headl after they both end up heterosexual partnerships and fathered their own chicks6 (source: Toronto Star).

The first stance of this happeng was back 1999 when a pair of gay pengus named Roy and Silo attempted to hatch a rock. The most famo gay pengus are Roy and Silo, two chstrap pengus who lived at Central Park Zoo New York. Their story was the basis of the 2005 children’s book, And Tango Mak are not the only gay pengus ptivy, here is a full list of those known about:.

London Zoo famoly stalled a banner at Pengu Beach (home of Ronnie and Reggie, the Zoo’s most famo gay pengus) to celebrate Pri.

GAY ANIMALS

Well, for one reason, ’s bee Skip and Pg are perceived as “gay pengus”, sce they’re a same-sex uple. And if you Google “gay pengus”, you’ll see a bazilln articl that characterize the uple that way, although blogists would e “same-sex uple”. Here’s a screenshot of jt a few the many pag you get when you do a Google image search for “gay pengus:.

I thk one of the reason people like this so much is bee seems to vdit the fact that gay upl or gay behavr is fe humans—bee occurs nature.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

Some of them might well be, and that would be if “gay” animals were like gay humans havg an eluctable attractn to uple and pair wh members of the same sex. In jails, for stance, mal and femal might engage same-sex relatnships, but not bee they’re “gay” the nventnal way, but bee that is the only outlet they have for their heterosexual urg.

The New York Tim says this explicly, and impli that this somehow vdit homosexualy humans (look at the first sentence, which impli that heterosexualy might be some kd of “hangup”):. Homosexualy has been observed a number of speci of animals, who tend to have fewer hangups than humans.