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.
"This is all quite distressing."
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.'
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YCMTSU!
OMG!
LOL!
The real question for the group is why these two penguins chose to be gay?
"This is all quite distressing."
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.
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”
“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"
I knew it.
Coming soon to a family court near you?
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.
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.
I understand that these two penguins did the interior decorating for the entire colony at the zoo...and it looked fabulous!
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.
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.
Bad recruiters. They didn't make their lifestyle seem cool.
“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.
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.
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