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Gay penguins in the news! Thank you ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nixieq
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-06-10/591.asp
Everyone's doing it...
"There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books." One particular book is helpful in this case. Bruce Bagemihl's "Biological Exuberance," published in 1999, documents homosexual behavior in more than 450 animal species. The list includes grizzly bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls and even several species of salmon.
Gay parental rights!
Last mating season, they even fostered an egg together.
"They got all excited when we gave them the egg," said Rob Gramzay, senior keeper for polar birds at the zoo. He took the egg from a young, inexperienced couple that hatched an extra and gave it to Silo and Roy. "And they did a really great job of taking care of the chick and feeding it."
It's not just a phase, leave me alone!
Of the 53 penguins in the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy are not the only ones that are gay. In 1997, the park had four pairs of homosexual penguins. In an effort to increase breeding, zookeepers tried to separate them by force. They failed, said Gramzay.
Family values and happiness
Today, they are one of the best couples at the aquarium. "Sometimes they lie on the rocks together," Mitchell said. "They're one of the few couples that like to hang out together outside their nest."
Queer eye knows no penguins
Rumors that they keep the neatest nest at the aquarium because they're gay are not true."These are penguins," said Mitchell. "They poop in their nest. Nobody's got a clean nest."
nixieqhttp://www.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/cns/2002-06-10/591.asp
Everyone's doing it...
"There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books." One particular book is helpful in this case. Bruce Bagemihl's "Biological Exuberance," published in 1999, documents homosexual behavior in more than 450 animal species. The list includes grizzly bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls and even several species of salmon.
Gay parental rights!
Last mating season, they even fostered an egg together.
"They got all excited when we gave them the egg," said Rob Gramzay, senior keeper for polar birds at the zoo. He took the egg from a young, inexperienced couple that hatched an extra and gave it to Silo and Roy. "And they did a really great job of taking care of the chick and feeding it."
It's not just a phase, leave me alone!
Of the 53 penguins in the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy are not the only ones that are gay. In 1997, the park had four pairs of homosexual penguins. In an effort to increase breeding, zookeepers tried to separate them by force. They failed, said Gramzay.
Family values and happiness
Today, they are one of the best couples at the aquarium. "Sometimes they lie on the rocks together," Mitchell said. "They're one of the few couples that like to hang out together outside their nest."
Queer eye knows no penguins
Rumors that they keep the neatest nest at the aquarium because they're gay are not true."These are penguins," said Mitchell. "They poop in their nest. Nobody's got a clean nest."
Penguin Lust!
Re: Penguin Lust!
Re: Penguin Lust!
I was looking like mad for one of the comic strips that talks about penguin lust to post!
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