February 9, 2010
Published: 3 Jun 09 15:19 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090603-19689.html
Two homosexual Humboldt penguins have become happy foster parents at the Bremerhaven Zoo, marking the first time two male penguins have helped hatch a baby bird in the northern German port city.
Andrew Mach (news@thelocal.de)
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PS I like penguins. A lot.
The whole story smells, appropriately, rather fishy to me.
if the girl penguins would wear pink more, all would be good!!
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That should do it
Personally I highly doubt that any penguin out in the wild would risk life and flipper to rear any other animal?s genetics but there own. Perhaps its similar to guys serving life sentences in jail,
I say we let them out and see if they stay a couple
homboldt penguins surely?!?
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All zoos want conservation of a species and breeding projects as top priority, but this story will get visitors.
It's not like the penguins do gay things, they just took it in turns to hatch the egg.
Oh, right. You didn't.
The link you posted shows that that animals exhibit homosexual behaviour.
So what has that got to do with "have gay birds incubate an egg before, but it never worked." and "If only this could be observed in the wild in large penguin colonies"
Absolutely nothing is the answer you are looking for.
You're too funny...