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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From what I understand, it’s really about dominance, not the cats going gay.
“But here is what the big cats do NOT do: Stick their penises up another cat’s butt”
That is why they should use liberals for medical experiments. There are some things even lab rats won’t do. :/
They’re just practicing gay child confiscation on penguins before the human trials.
pete and chase???
GayGUINS?
Sure they did. Damn perverted liars.
Hey! Daily Mail! You ain’t, and never will be, the BEE!
LMAO! See the look on dat poor doggie’s face!
If they are not having same sex sex with each other…
They are not “gay.”
To gay birds can’t even produce a “dummy egg” let alone an actual egg.
In the wild they would have to take(steal) an egg from the normie penguins.
Homosexual anthropomorphism.
Gay bacteria?
The more stare at that, the harder I laugh🤪
Because they’re female? Human females have eggs that drop right regular like, with or without a feller around. :)
Straight racist pensions? 😄
I'm not a chicken, but as I understand it, hens go through a daily menstrual cycle. (technically not a "menstrual" cycle) If their egg has not been fertilized by a rooster, it will just flush out of their system, with a shell attached.
There’s no such thing.
“where did you get that jacket?”
Got it from the network.
Yeah, right—the hetero couple break their eggs. I totally believe that. It was not a cover story for pushing the gay agenda—no, not at all.
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