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…
Contents:
- WHAT’S WH ALL THE GAY PENGUS?
- ARE PENGUS GAY? NO, THEY’RE JT LONELY
- CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
- GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
- ‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
- CONTROVERSIAL TORONTO ZOO PENGUS NOT GAY AFTER ALL?
- SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .
- PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA
- A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
- 11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
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... * all penguins are 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.
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.
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. * all penguins are gay *
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. 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.
CAN PENGUS BE GAY? [ALL QUTNS ANSWERED]
* all penguins are gay *
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? Do Gay Pengus Steal Eggs?
GAY PENGUS RAISE NEWLY HATCHED CHICK AT NEW YORK ZOO
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. * all penguins are gay *
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.
‘GAY PENGUS’ BOOK STIRS NTROVERSY, IGNOR FULL STORY
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. 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.
CONTROVERSIAL TORONTO ZOO PENGUS NOT GAY AFTER ALL?
The 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. The banner follows the theme of Stonewall’s ‘Get Over It’ mpaign which aims to fight homophobia. The banner read “Some pengus are gay, get over !
SOME PENGUS ARE GAY. GET OVER .
Y, gay pengus steal eggs om heterosexual pengu upl. 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. 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.
PLEASE, NOT THE GAY PENGUS AGA
“Of urse, we know the kids eventually are gog to learn about the homosexual liftyle, ” she said. The book was published before the two pengus Throckmorton, associate profsor of psychology at Grove Cy College Pennsylvania, joked that Silo was the “world’s first ex-gay pengu.
”“At tim gay activists will e the animal kgdom to support the lk between naturalism and human sexualy, and yet when Silo … took up wh a female pengu, the gay activists were downplayg the importance of that, ” Throckmorton told Baptist Prs. ”Several years ago, when the news about Roy and Silo’s “gay relatnship broke, ” liberal activists quickly poted to as a supportg argument for “gay marriage” the human world.
“Ined, if homosexual marriag exist the animal kgdom, they mt be normal. ”But Throckmorton said neher si of the “gay marriage” bate should “read too much to” the relatnship between Roy and Silo — whether the two pengus are together or apart. ” –30– For rmatn about the natnal bate over “gay marriage, ” vis.
A GAY PENGU UPLE ADOPTED AN EGG A BERL ZOO
“In my long reer, there has never been an edor who was more precise, more astute, more mandg, and yet more enuragg, ” says Gay Tale, who published Unto the Sons and A Wrer’s Life wh Segal.
11 ANIMAL SPECI THAT PROVE BEG GAY IS NATURAL
Consirg the pengus—Pedro and Buddy—were brought to the zoo for breedg purpos, posed que the nundm for zookeepers who planned to separate the pair hop that attractive femal would tch their I wrote last year, wasn't clear at the time if the pengus were tly homosexual or jt lonely, but now we have an update. "Although Buddy and Pedro no longer act like a same-sex uple, two homosexual kg pengus (Aptenodyt patagonic) Denmark's Onse Zoo recently beme parents after several years of habatn.
Homosexualy pengus has been observed the wild, notably kg pengus. Homosexualy has been observed more than 1, 000 other news, the Toronto Zoo is now tryg to breed two southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasrh lations), a task most zoos have not been able to acplish. “I knew homosexualy existed the animal world but I had never heard of gay adoptn the animal world, ” Schmidt said.