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Gay penguins expelled from zoo for stealing eggs given their own following animal rights protest
The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | December 15, 2008 | Caroline Graham

Posted on 12/15/2008 10:21:20 AM PST by Stoat

Last month the birds were segregated after they were caught  placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs.

But angry visitors to Polar Land in Harbin, northern China, complained it wasn't fair to stop the couple from becoming surrogate fathers and urged zoo bosses to give them a chance.

'We decided to give them two eggs from another couple whose hatching ability had been poor and they've turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo,' said one of the keepers.

'It's very encouraging and if this works out well we will try to arrange for them to become real parents themselves with artificial insemination.'

Wildlife experts at the park explain that despite being gay the three-year-old male birds are still driven by an urge to be fathers.

'One of the responsibilities of being a male adult is looking after the eggs. Despite the fact that they can't have eggs naturally, it does not take away their biological drive to be a parent,' said one.
 

One campaigner who did not want to be named welcomed the move and said: 'It wasn't fair to stop them becoming parents and keep them apart from all the other birds just because of the way nature has made them.'

 

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Stoat

YCMTSU!

OMG!

LOL!


21 posted on 12/15/2008 10:46:50 AM PST by ryan71
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To: ryan71

The real question for the group is why these two penguins chose to be gay?


22 posted on 12/15/2008 10:50:48 AM PST by liberlog
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To: Stoat

"This is all quite distressing."

23 posted on 12/15/2008 10:53:47 AM PST by far sider
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To: liberlog

Perhaps the same reason my cat purrs up to my dog when she’s in heat. Maybe the males have no female penguins that want to help them extend the species.


24 posted on 12/15/2008 10:56:27 AM PST by HungarianGypsy
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To: Stoat; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
It ain't just the penguins.


25 posted on 12/15/2008 10:59:39 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."--Howard Tayler)
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To: Stoat

They were not given their OWN eggs. They have no OWN eggs, nor can they ever have. The correct title is:

“Eggs Stolen from Real Mother to Please Gay Penguins”


26 posted on 12/15/2008 11:02:42 AM PST by nina0113 (Hugh Akston is my hero.)
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To: nina0113
They were not given their OWN eggs. They have no OWN eggs, nor can they ever have. The correct title is:

“Eggs Stolen from Real Mother to Please Gay Penguins”

Or, possibly:

"Unborn children stolen from normal, healthy couple by the State and given to grandstanding perverts in order to please the shrill pervert / deviant lobbyists"

27 posted on 12/15/2008 11:06:14 AM PST by Stoat (Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Slings and Arrows

28 posted on 12/15/2008 11:12:57 AM PST by Lady Jag (DONATE NOW at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Stoat

I knew it.

29 posted on 12/15/2008 11:16:04 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (Liberty has few friends, many enemies, and no adequate substitute.)
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To: Stoat

Coming soon to a family court near you?


30 posted on 12/15/2008 11:17:04 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Stoat
A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after following a protest by animal rights groups.

Who threw them out, the zookeepers or the straight penguins? If it was the penguins, then the protesters are protesting the penguins' decisions? This is weird.

31 posted on 12/15/2008 11:22:31 AM PST by gitmo (I am the latte-sipping, NYT-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, PC, arrogant liberal. -BO)
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To: Stoat

Is the article saying that the gay birds were trying to fool the parents into thinking the stones were their eggs while they sneaked off with the real thing? Because they implies a level of deceit and thinking that I didn’t know penguins were capable of.


32 posted on 12/15/2008 11:32:53 AM PST by Burkean
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To: Stoat

I understand that these two penguins did the interior decorating for the entire colony at the zoo...and it looked fabulous!


33 posted on 12/15/2008 11:37:59 AM PST by Signalman
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To: Burkean

Yes, if that were the case, I’d expect to see a followup article on the normal male penguins pecking these penguin perverts to death in defense of their children.


34 posted on 12/15/2008 11:40:26 AM PST by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: antiRepublicrat
Coming soon to a family court near you?

Quite likely, considering that the Left looks to the ChiComs as being the pinnacle of enlightenment and Solonic wisdom.  We can probably look forward to this idiocy being cited as a precedent in legal matters involving humans because, after all, humans are no better than animals in the eyes of the secular humanist troglodytes.

35 posted on 12/15/2008 11:42:43 AM PST by Stoat (Palin / Coulter 2012: A Strong America Through Unapologetic Conservatism)
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To: Slings and Arrows
I really don't about gay penguins because it's impossible to the casual eye to see if those feathered little lovers are male or female. And besides, from watching other penguin mating You Tube tapes - some of which I considered too graphic for this website - it would appear that all penguins mate using rear positioning. Here's a sweet, wholesome example of penquin foreplay
36 posted on 12/15/2008 12:31:50 PM PST by xJones
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To: Hacklehead
It didn’t work for the Shakers.

Bad recruiters. They didn't make their lifestyle seem cool.

37 posted on 12/15/2008 1:09:50 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: nina0113

“Eggs Stolen from Real Mother to Please Gay Penguins”

It takes a really sick mind to consider it “fair” to steal eggs from a mother to give to gay penguins.


38 posted on 12/15/2008 1:16:19 PM PST by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: Stoat

I’m just enjoying the humor of this post and the run-on sentence, so wanted to reply for the sake of replying. Nothing personal. :)

British tabloids are well known to be as stupid as the yobbo doleies and council flatties that read them.

>>Grammatically incorrect poster
>>Are you serious? Provide an example please.

>>I was forced to truncate the original title because the FR system would not >>allow it to be posted in its entirety. Here it is in all of its original glory:

>>Gay penguins expelled from zoo colony for stealing eggs are given their >>own to look after following animal rights protest

>>Pretty much what I’ve become accustomed to in the British tabloids. Not >>the way I would have written it given the chance, but FR rules forbid us >>from altering article titles. I altered it only enough so that it would be >>accepted by the system without changing its meaning.


39 posted on 12/15/2008 3:40:28 PM PST by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/)
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To: Hacklehead
Arrrrr, I'll be havin those eggs now,
just to make it fairrrrr.

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40 posted on 12/15/2008 3:44:32 PM PST by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain on the dress.)
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