Zookeepers have ma a special mi banner for the Pengu Beach home of the Zoo’s most famo gay rints, Humboldt pengus Ronnie and Reggie, payg homage to Stonewall’s groundbreakg ‘Get Over It.’ mpaign.
Contents:
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN
- CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
- GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
- GAY PENGU POPULATN IS SKYROCKETG AT THIS AQUARIUM
- SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .
WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
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... * how are penguins gay *
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.
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.
ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
A gay pengu uple are now proud parents after the egg they had been rg for hatched early last month. * how are penguins gay *
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.
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.
WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN
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. 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.
CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
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.
GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
’ ” Years later he relented, wrg that he eventually “admted that the rams lived sentially a homosexual society. 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.
GAY PENGU POPULATN IS SKYROCKETG AT THIS AQUARIUM
” 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.
”As most any Homo sapiens will tell you, sex that don’t brg about offsprg n still be worthwhile.
SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .
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. 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. 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.