Posted on 02/16/2005 6:24:13 AM PST by Ellesu
A German zoo has abandoned a plan to break up homosexual penguin couples after protests from gay rights groups.
The Bremerhaven Zoo in northern Germany had earlier flown in four female Humboldt penguins in an attempt to encourage three all-male couples to reproduce.
The zoo originally defended the experiment on the grounds that the birds were an endangered species. But after protests from gay rights groups, director Heike Kueck said the zoo was abandoning the plan.
"Everyone can live here as they please," Ms Kueck said.
She said it was not her intention, nor was it possible, to separate the gay couples by force and interest them in their new female companions.
She added that the gay penguins had shown little interest in the females, but this could have been because the program was started too late in the year.
Gay groups had protested against "the organised and forced harassment through female seductresses" in an open letter to Bremerhaven Mayor Joerg Schulz and called on him to stop the program.
Zoo keepers discovered that the homosexual couples had gathered rocks that they coveted like eggs and fooled their keepers for years into thinking they were boy-and-girl duos.
The zoo came up with the ingenious idea of trying to convert the males by flying in some exotic birds from Scandinavia. But the boys haven't exactly been fighting for a slice of the female action. On the contrary, they have shown their suitors the cold shoulder.
"The relationships were obviously too serious," Ms Kueck said of the same-sex penguin couples. Instead of flirting with the opposite sex, they seemed to prefer sitting on the stones, which substitute for the eggs they will never be able to lay.
The zoo, which promotes itself with the slogan "encounters of a special kind", initially wanted to wait until spring 2006 to see if their international matchmaking efforts spawned results.
Now the gay penguins are being allowed to live the way they want.
As for the Swedish females - new male penguins have been drafted in to attend to their heterosexual needs.
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I know nothing! I see nothing!
Now I know what is wrong with our Linux box in the back.
What if the pengiuns in question are bi-sexual? Is the zoo harming them by removing the female pengiuns? Hmmm?
Now all we need is for PETA to get involved.
Is this whole thing a joke? It should be.
Reminded of a bumper sticker- now modified
Nuke gay penguins for jesus
Precisely! Otherwise, they would not be afraid of the penguins 'going straight'.
It nauseates me how these simpering faggots only have to whine to the organs of the world press to get just about anyone to cave in to their B.S.
WHERE IS PETA ON THIS ISSUE???
Come out of the bathroom and admit it. You're homonausic.
I did and now I feel so liberated.
I think I was born this way.
Gay penguins are an endangered species and they refuse to mate with females...
Sounds like a self-correcting problem... until they start recruiting.
Exactly!!
"Everyone here can live as they please".
So, they can leave and the the Adm. Byrd back to the South Pole or Hoboken, right?
Gay groups had protested against "the organised and forced harassment through female seductresses"
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Geeze, talk about stupid.
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