[presidio9]

Male Humboldt penguin pair "Sechs Punkt" (Six Point) and "Schraegstrich" (Slash) cuddling at the Bremerhaven zoo in 2005. Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005(AFP/DDP/File)

[Crooked Constituent]

Brokeback Iceberg

[Doogle]

The world famous Nude Penquin Beach

[armymarinemom]

Penguins on strike.

[Gay State Conservative]

Cleese:"If it lays an egg,it will roll down the back of the television set."

Chapman:"Unless it's a male"

Cleese:"Yes...it looks fairly butch"

[Lunatic Fringe]

This story is gay.

[armymarinemom]

[presidio9]

ping

[Gordongekko909]

Gay penguins... we have any Photoshoppers out there?

[TASMANIANRED]

Why not put the female in with the 4 that hadn't gone brokeback.

[infidel29]

Maybe the female penguins are not so attractive...

It is Germany after all.

[presidio9]

[Ol' Dan Tucker]

The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves.

It's not uncommon for male birds to bond with other male birds or for female birds to bond to female birds.

I would be surprised to see a bonded pair (regardless of gender) separate in response to introducing single birds into the flock.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The females were flown in last year in a bid to bring the males to mate and help save the Humboldt species from extinction....The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.

So I guess we can expect the Humboldt penguin soon to take its place alongside the dodo and the passenger pigeon. Better that than to "force" the penguins to be "breeders," even though it should be the nature of a penguin to breed.

I don't know what brought this species to the verge of extinction, but I do know that political correctness and a bizarre anthropomorphism will finish it off.

[topcat54]

Are they buggering one another or just holding flippers?

[RedMonqey]

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.

[FormerLib]

It's a prison environment, weird stuff happens.

Gay penguins? Sounds more like a couple of penguin prison b*tches!

[Alouette]

[windcliff]

ping

[Serendipitous]

Sweet cows have been around forever. No surprise that penguins aren't so different.

[NCjim]

"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."

But of course...