Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name

nytimes.com ^ | February 7, 2004 | DINITIA SMITH

[paltz]

Roy and Silo, two chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan, are completely devoted to each other. For nearly six years now, they have been inseparable. They exhibit what in penguin parlance is called "ecstatic behavior": that is, they entwine their necks, they vocalize to each other, they have sex. Silo and Roy are, to anthropomorphize a bit, gay penguins. When offered female companionship, they have adamantly refused it. And the females aren't interested in them, either.

At one time, the two seemed so desperate to incubate an egg together that they put a rock in their nest and sat on it, keeping it warm in the folds of their abdomens, said their chief keeper, Rob Gramzay. Finally, he gave them a fertile egg that needed care to hatch. Things went perfectly. Roy and Silo sat on it for the typical 34 days until a chick, Tango, was born. For the next two and a half months they raised Tango, keeping her warm and feeding her food from their beaks until she could go out into the world on her own. Mr. Gramzay is full of praise for them.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Two male penguins hanging out together and sitting on eggs is vastly different from Steve and Greg fisting each other and sticking flashlights up their backsides. Absolutley correct !! Good point.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Mark my words, they'll be pushing for lowering the age of consent after they get the marriage issue settled.

Right about that one...

It's a sin that somehow

Light is changing to shadow

And casting it's shroud

Over all we have known.....

[kennedy]

Incest, polygamy, rape and every form of sexual deviancy you can imagine are common among animals too.

[Right Wing Professor]

Gay penguins? It's always the same. A guy plays with a little finesse, and people start calling him gay.

[expatguy]

I told a homosexual person I know that same sex is against nature and he told me about the gay monkeys.

I didn't believe it at first, but StraightDope confirms it.

[luvbach1]

Two male penguins hanging out together and sitting on eggs is vastly different from Steve and Greg fisting each other and sticking flashlights up their backsides.

Your graphic description of homosexual "love making" made your point perfectly. I also doubt that penguins have glory holes.

[luvbach1]

Some elements of the behaviors highlighted in gitmo's post #52 are exhibited by humans. Others are supressed.

[Clinging Bitterly]

The version I heard didn't have any penguins in it. Short version:

Traveling Alaska native (can we still say Eskimo?) is having trouble with his snowmobile. Leaves it at a repair shop and goes off to have lunch. After lunch he returns to the shop and inquires about the status of his snowmobile. "Looks like you blew a seal", says the mechanic. "Nah," he says, wiping his face, "it's just mayo."

[TASMANIANRED]

I have a friend that had a dog ( now deceased) that frequently had at a male cat, Homosexual, inter species...
normal or natural?

[RightWingAtheist]

[optik_b]

Re: Nazi comparison.

It also has this line which I think is interesting:

Still, scientists warn about drawing conclusions about humans. "For some people, what animals do is a yardstick of what is and isn't natural," Mr. Vasey said. "They make a leap from saying if it's natural, it's morally and ethically desirable."

But he added: "Infanticide is widespread in the animal kingdom. To jump from that to say it is desirable makes no sense. We shouldn't be using animals to craft moral and social policies for the kinds of human societies we want to live in. Animals don't take care of the elderly. I don't particularly think that should be a platform for closing down nursing homes."

[Hildy]

And they dress well...

[HiTech RedNeck]

My male cat and female dog seem to have a "thing" going on lately. Should we start therapy? or just let them play out their sick, twisted desires?

Who knows, maybe it would produce a pupten. Or would that be a kitpy. CatDog!

[GunRunner]

[RightWingAtheist]

And here are the lovely couple's kids:

[lady lawyer]

So, animals eat their poop. But when a human does it, it's considered sick.

[JimRed]

Bonobo monkeys

Just for the record, Bonobos are not monkeys; they are apes, very similar to chimps. Monkeys have tails, apes do not.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My question in all of this is if homosexuallity is genetic, then why didn't natural selection take it out of the gene pool long ago?

[martin_fierro]

Thanks for clearing all that up.

[Thane_Banquo]

I love the way Monty Python parodied radical leftists. More than one of their movies would have crackpot Marxists who made no sense. Made them out to be the irrational nutcases they are.