Posted on 02/08/2006 2:53:22 PM PST by presidio9
Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005, the zoo said.
The problem was that the female Humboldt penguins have proven too shy in their advances, the director of the zoo in the northern port city of Bremerhaven said.
"The Swedes will not make the first move," Heike Kueck said.
The females were flown in last year in a bid to bring the males to mate and help save the Humboldt species from extinction.
Kueck said last year she was optimistic the initiative would be successful because zoo keepers had noticed that at one point a female penguin had managed to cause a couple of males to "separate".
The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves.
The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.
In a statement posted on its Internet website, the zoo on Wednesday sought to defend itself from fresh criticism.
"We will be delighted if the penguins form even one heterosexual couple and manage to produce first an egg, and then a little one," it said.
"But of course we accept the male couples that have formed and we are not trying to enforce heterosexuality, as we were accused of doing last year."
Bonded aside, has ANYONE seen these "gay" penquins actually mount and penetrate another male penquin.
Unless they do, they aren't gay, they're the geeks of the high school zoo prom.
As dictated by the homosexual agenda, if you prefer the company of males, and are celibate, you are gay.
Problem is the gay mafia won't let them split them up into male-female pairs. That would be heteronazi enforcement of our own twisted morality.
It's a prison environment, weird stuff happens.
Gay penguins? Sounds more like a couple of penguin prison b*tches!
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Looks like they're trying to turn a new Leaf.
Speaking of which, this thread is incomplete without a picture of former gay Penguin Ron Tugnutt assuming the position.
Sweet cows have been around forever. No surprise that penguins aren't so different.
But of course...
LOL!
This is what happens when you suspend the principle of survival of the fittest. Send them back to Antartica and make them work for a living, and they'll change their attitudes.
If a bunch of Swedish babes don't turn 'em on, there's no hope.
Please tell me his name isn't really "Tugnutt."
I wish I could.
Those are awfully big hippos out there in the water.
"This deosn't mean I'm gay!"
I'd say this is a stupid article that's been hashed over to near exhaustion, but it seems more an indication that the truth is out there and seeping through and that homosexual activism in media just cannot stop themselves from repeating their thread-worn, tired mantra about "gay penguins in the German Zoo."
I'm tired of repeating eigth grade biology lessons, myself, as to why this avian population has behaved as it does and no surprise that their imprinting is remaining in effect for the more hard-wired individuals within their isolated population.
I'm not pinging the H.A. and/or M.A. list because accordingly, but anyone else, feel free.
That was sort of my point. I post "global warming" threads for the same reason.
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