Gay penguins steal eggs from straight couples

Telegraph ^ | 11/27/2008

[cmdjing]

A couple of gay penguins are attempting to steal eggs from straight birds in an effort to become "fathers", it has been reported. The two penguins have started placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs, in a bid to hide their theft. But the deception has been noticed by other penguins at the zoo, who have ostracised the gay couple from their group. Now keepers have decided to segregate the pair of three-year-old male birds to avoid disrupting the rest of the community during the hatching season. A keeper at Polar Land in Harbin, north east China explained that the gay couple had the natural urge to become fathers, despite their sexuality. "One of the responsibilities of being a male adult is looking after the eggs. Despite this being a biological impossibility for this couple, the natural desire is still there," a keeper told the Austrian Times newspaper. "It's not discrimination. We have to fence them separately, otherwise the whole group will be disturbed during hatching time," he added. There are numerous examples of homosexuality in the animal kingdom, but gay penguins have captured the public's attention more than any other species. A German zoo provoked outrage from gay lobby groups after attempting to mate a group of gay male penguins with Swedish female birds who were flown in especially to seduce them. But the project was abandoned after the males refused to be "turned", showing no interest in their would-be mates. In 2002 a couple of penguins at a New York zoo who had been together for eight years were "outed" when keepers noticed that they were both males.

[Fido969]

As a result of this, gay activists are staging protests outside of the penguin exhibit.

[Daffynition]

Yes, they do.

[conservativeharleyguy]

To assume that two birds are homosexual because they exhibit odd behaviors is absolutely ludicrous. You cannot attribute human behaviors to other species.

That's anthropomorphism.

It's ironic that they don't seem to have noticed (or failed to report) that animals under the neurosis-inducing conditions of captivity frequently manifest themselves in a variety of behaviors that are abnormal (emphasis on abnormal) to their species. That doesn't mean they are somehow “born gay”. It just means they are disturbed (well, come to think of it.... maybe????).

[ThreePuttinDude]

When I saw that picture on the cover of the free edition
of the TBT paper, I wanted to smack somebody.

Good thing there wasnt a HappyBoy close to me or he/she would have gotten it. LOL

[Daffynition]

[conservativeharleyguy]

I stand by my statement. If people want to attribute a pair of penguin’s ritual grooming behavoirs to homosexuality, it’s only because that’s what they want to see (possibly to validate something about themselves?).

If it somehow does manifest itself in abnormal sexual behaviors, it’s because capativity has altered their normal behavior patterns.

[Daffynition]

It would seem that anthropomorphizing critters does thrust the whole gay agenda into the lime light and spins off into other areas. Sigh ... glad I'm not raising kids in this day-and-age ... what they are exposed to is deviant.