Posted on 01/31/2022 8:33:24 AM PST by sevinufnine
A same-sex penguin couple has become foster parents to a newborn hatchling in a first for an upstate New York zoo. Humboldt penguins Elmer and Lima first got together this past mating season, and built a nest together in the fall, which they have both defended from incoming predators. Their devotion to each other led officials at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo to test how the two would be as parents, using a dummy egg, before letting them take care of a fertilized egg of their own. Before giving the couple an egg of their own, zoo officials tested Elmer and Lima would be as parents by first putting a dummy egg in their nest. Some prospective penguin parents either keep the egg next to them, rather than sit on it to keep it warm, or fight with each other for a chance to keep the dummy egg warm. But not Elmer and Lima, who took turns incubating the egg until it hatched. 'Elmer and Lima were exemplary in every aspect of egg care,' Zoo Director Ted Fox said. After the couple passed the test, zoo officials replace the dummy egg with a real one that came from a pair of breeding penguins that have a history of inadvertently breaking their fertilized egg. The unnamed baby penguin is now reportedly in good condition, as it continues to be looked over by the same-sex couple.
'It continues to be brooded and cared for by both Elmer and Lima, who are doing a great job,' Fox said in a zoo statement. 'And once they have experience doing this and continue to do it well, they will be considered to foster future eggs.'
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I can only dare wonder what this insane, woke world we live in will come up with next!?
Which one of them is the Secretary of Transportation?
You bet.
Progressive conclusion - fashionable and trendy gay men in urban areas can raise the children of welfare crackhead mothers.
Oh no!
If you mess with the environment of any animal, strange things happen. Stuff a bunch of big cats in a small area and they start exhibiting homosexual behavior.
No one talks about the sure-to-follow, ensuing diseases and premature deaths.
Question: How do chickens lay eggs without a rooster around?
Darn you (/s), I was drinking my second cup of coffee, and now have to wipe down the keyboard.
You know here on FR, when you post faggot threads, you should always have a FAG WARNINGS on the headline.
Normal male penguins do this all the time, caring for the egg while the female goes to eat.
What the zoo isn’t saying is that the “gay” penguins don’t actually have sex, nor attempt to procreate, because even the animals aren’t stupid enough to think that would work.
Male and female penguins in the wild actually group together for a lot of reasons, the primary one being to keep from freezing in the winter.
That’s why they planted this story in the media. I’ve seen other similar stories of homosexual behavior in animals.
And they want us to think, gee, there are gay penguins, thus homosexuality exists in the animal kingdom, thus, homosexuality among humans is just a parallel of what is found in the animal kingdom.
They just let them drop.
I’m sorry. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m no ornithologist, and I have done no research at all into the subject of “gay penguins,” but I’m skeptical as hell that this story is anything other than totally bogus LGBT propaganda, i.e., a 100% false narrative manufactured to persuade the gullible that homosexual couples exist in the animal kingdom, make wonderful parents, blah blah blah. Does this “same-sex penguin couple” sodomize each other? If not, then how are they even “gay”?
Exactly.
Just another lame attempt by liberals to try to convince people, “See! Homosexuality is very natural. And the baby penguins raised by this gay couple will turn out just fine.”
They live in a zoo. What incoming predators do they have there?
Gay chairs become first-time dads: two gay chairs sat on rug successfully hatch baby mat.
When they go crazy they go all the way.
where did you get that jacket?
"That's Super!"
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