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CHICAGO (BP)--A children's book based on a te story about two "gay pengus" is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact -- the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt…

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ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY

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 silo *

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.

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

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

‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY

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 silo *

Standg si by si at the Berl Zoo wh their flippers touchg, they take turns refully ntlg an egg between their feet the hope that will eventually hatch the chick they have both long the two 10-year-olds are both male — and the latt a long succsn of same-sex pengus that have upled up to adopt an zoos London, Atralia and New York, male and female pengus have for years entered same-sex relatnships to cubate eggs to chicks, lightg zookeepers and some visors while stirrg anger and revulsn has bee the latt cy to host a pair of “gay” pengus after Skipper and Pg showed an attractn to each other and a sire to bee parents. Rashed, who is gay, me to Germany four years ago and found a haven.

TANGO AND SILO, THE GAY PENGUS OM ‘AND TANGO MAK THREE,’ ARE OFFICIALLY EX-GAY

Germany has one of the world’s hight acceptance rat for homosexualy, and legalized same-sex marriage and granted full adoptn rights 2017.

The German far right, however, has been acced of stirrg homophobia recent nursery-school teacher Hannelore Ber said she first heard about the same-sex pengu uple on TV. “An animal follows s stcts and s feelgs — jt like humans, too, ” Ber Berl Zoo officials said their pengu uple had so far spired only posive reactns om visors, siar stanc — and even lerature about — have recent years sparked fierce backlash, ernmental bans and relig protts around the forcefulns of that backlash has bee a way to measure “where we are at any one lotn terms of the acceptance of gay rights, ” said psychiatrist Jt Richardson, -thor of a children’s book that tells the te story of same-sex pengus adoptg an egg at New York’s Central Park Zoo two chstrap pengus — Silo and Roy — were able to succsfully hatch their adopted baby pengu, Tango. “There have been so many challeng to the book around the world — is sometim hard to keep up wh , ” Richardson said a telephone their charmg waddle and tenncy to rema monogamo relatnships, pengus appear to have ronated wh both supporters and opponents of gay rights unlike any other of the more than 450 animal speci that have been observed to show homosexual behavr.

Richardson said the backlash to his work is bee this behavr among pengus reaffirms that homosexualy is ed natural and not, as some opponents argue, an unnatural choice.

A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO

”Blogists have been more ut about drawg lks between homosexual behavr of animals and humans, sayg that occurrenc of same-sex uplg or matg ruals are rare the animal world and that there is not enough data to say whether members of certa speci, cludg pengus, n be gay. Most likely, animals sometim lled gay public disurse are, fact, bisexual, rearchers say. Meanwhile Poland, the untry’s first openly gay mayor, Robert Biedron, faced right-wg nmnatns for actively promotg the book 2009, as the untry’s LGBT muny was beg more vol.

FLAP OVER A TALE OF GAY PENGUS

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.

Pengus aren't the only birds that form homosexual relatnships.

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. CHICAGO (BP)–A children’s book based on a te story about two “gay pengus” is g ncern om parents several schools and towns natnwi, and th far the ntroversy largely has ignored an important fact — the pengus long ago spl up, wh one of them gog on to nt wh the oppose sex. “Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said.

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Gay pengus: Same-sex pengu uple Berl Zoo adopts egg - The Washgton Post .

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