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Gay flamingos pick up chick
AFP ^
| 05/21/07
Posted on 05/21/2007 10:30:49 AM PDT by presidio9
A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.
Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.
But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.
"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.
"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."
Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.
"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males," she said.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: gaythread; homosexualagenda; isntthatspecial; moralabsolutes
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:30:51 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
This needs a “Rediculous Alert”
2
posted on
05/21/2007 10:32:24 AM PDT
by
gidget7
(2Th 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
To: presidio9
I thought ALL flamingos were gay!
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:32:58 AM PDT
by
To Hell With Poverty
(In the end, history is what God remembers.)
To: presidio9
Flamingos?
4
posted on
05/21/2007 10:33:21 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: presidio9
And they steal children. Interesting
5
posted on
05/21/2007 10:33:44 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:33:47 AM PDT
by
itsamelman
(Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
To: presidio9
Picture of their sexual encounters a must to be believable.
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:34:10 AM PDT
by
rocksblues
(Do unto others as they do unto you!)
To: presidio9
I bet their nest looks fabulous.
To: presidio9
Pink Flamingos? Ugh... that's REALLY gay.
Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple
Won't take long for the Sodom-promoters to use this as evidence for the naturality of homosexuality and justify same-sex marriage.
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:34:29 AM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Save America: Thompson/Hunter 2008)
To: AppyPappy
By Gay, do they mean they have anal sex?
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:34:33 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: presidio9
Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added. Especially along Miami's South Beach............
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:35:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Why do we keep seeing these homosexual animals in nature stories coming up? Do the gay activists really think that it makes them seem more natural if there is evidence of homosexuality in the animal kingdom???
To: presidio9
“even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs “
Flamingo-hawking?
To: presidio9
“A pair of gay flamingos...”
Sorry, no such thing unless they mean “happy”, which they don’t.
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:36:23 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(A fool who'll waste his life, God rest his guts.)
To: To Hell With Poverty
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats. I bet.........
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:36:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: presidio9
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:37:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: massgopguy
By Gay, do they mean they have anal sex? That's a stretch..........
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:38:00 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: presidio9
"...a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves..."
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:38:20 AM PDT
by
itsamelman
(Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
To: presidio9
How many more posts till this thread is pulled?......2 maybe 3?.........
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:38:40 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: presidio9
Are they chickophiles? Maybe Dahmer was just ‘adopting’ abandoned youths.
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posted on
05/21/2007 10:39:26 AM PDT
by
ConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)
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