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Contents:

• ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
• WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
• GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
• SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .
• CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
• WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN
• A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
• GAY PENGUS AT LONDON AQUARIUM ARE RAISG 'GENRLS' CHICK
• THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA
• GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.
• 'GAY' PENGU COUPLE HAD NO EGG OF THEIR OWN. SO THEY STOLE ONE.
• GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL

ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

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.

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. The list of gay pengu upl go on and on and spans a wi range of speci.

WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?

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. 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.

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.

GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO

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). 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.

SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .

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.

CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]

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.

WHY ARE PENGUS SO GAY? AN VTIGATN

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.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

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. The bonobo ap, for example, palize on the release of the bondg hormone oxytoc durg homosexual sex to strengthen the social allianc between femal.

GAY PENGUS AT LONDON AQUARIUM ARE RAISG 'GENRLS' CHICK

(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.

THE GAY PENGUS OF ATRALIA

Electra and Vla are not the first gay pengus, nor are they the first same-sex uple to cubate, hatch, and raise a chick.

GAY PENGUS? NOT SO FAST.

A 2010 study entled Homosexual Matg Displays Pengus that appeared the journal Ethology noted that "same-sex urtship displays were mon (28.

“Some pengus are gay.

Of urse, gay pengus were not new. Rehgly, Alaimo not this began to shift wh the publitns of Bce Bagemihl’s Blogil Exuberance: Animal Homosexualy and Natural Diversy (1999) and Joan Roughgarn’s Evolutn’s Rabow: Diversy, Genr, and Sexualy Nature and People (2004). London's most famo gay upleZookeepers 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.

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

Humans are not the only animal to engage homosexual behavr. 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. 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 . Can Pengus Be Gay? Who Are The Famo Gay Pengus?

GAY PENGUS, AND THEIR HOPE FOR A BABY, HAVE ENCHANTED BERL

Do Gay Pengus Steal Eggs? Pengus have been observed engagg homosexual behavr the wild and ptivy. His 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.

387-393) the past, zoos have tried to ‘sway’ their gay pengus to heterosexual relatnships. 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. In any se, was unsuccsful as the imported femal were not of tert to the, homosexual behavr pengus is accepted and celebrated.