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.

[3catsanadog]

Got another one along the line of this thread:

Fussy woman is in the veterinarian's waiting room with her poodle. In comes another woman with a Great Dane and sits down near her.

The fussy woman is a talkative type and starts to talk about her poodle. "I've reached the end of my rope with my poodle. I'm so embarrassed. Every time I have my bridge club over, he starts inappropriately attaching himself to the ladies' legs and, oh goodness me, acting in a sexual manner."

The woman with the Great Dane said, "oh, I know what you mean. Every time I get out of the shower and bend over to dry my legs, he jumps up on me."

The first woman said "Oh!! So you're going to have him neutered too!"

The second woman said, "No, I'm having his nails clipped."

[RightWingAtheist]

( I've seen llamas "go gay". REALLY disturbing! )

Would it be redundant to ask if they spit or swallow?

[I got the rope]

Does anybody else see a contradiction between naturally occurring homosexuality and evolution?

What are you saying?...that sodomites don't reproduce...they recruit? OR are you saying that being a homo is obviously not GENETIC? LOL. Stop. Your confusing me with reason and logic. LOL.

[tiamat]

Some people would certainly desrrve to have crap thrown at them!

i like monkies on little roller skates.

[RightWingAtheist]

Opus: Penguin lust is not immoral and wicked, and anybody that thinks so is just an old prude ... it's beautiful! and natural! and I for one fully support penguin lust!

Donahue: Great, but today's topic is "nun beating."

Opus: Good Lord, man ... I can't support that.

[tiamat]

John Beresford Tipton wrote:



Too, late, they are already in their tuxes,
ready to go on the speaking circuit, just
DON'T encourage them by throwing them a fish!

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Sadly, you are right, and since they already HAVE their formal wear on the fundraiser dinners must already be booked!

[tiamat]

RightWingAtheist wrote:



Would it be redundant to ask if they spit or swallow?

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Llamas are talented animals, and do both, as the mood takes them!

[tiamat]

lady lawyer wrote:

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

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Okay.
For you, and several others, here.

SOME animals do that.

I HOPE we all understand that humans are supposed to have INTELLECT !

Sadly, such is not always the case, as demonstated every day on FR and other forums.

[tiamat]

varon wrote:

Yeah, my dog use to like humping my leg but I didn't consider it natural ;-)

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It's entirely natural, ( dogs will DO that if you let them ) but it's also entirely too forward. I hope that you smacked him with a newspaper and trained him NOT to!

Animals CAN be taught manners!

[Travis McGee]

Mommy hamsters frequently chew all the legs off their new born babies.

More natural mammalian behavior, which we don't condone in humans.