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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Fred Phelps would say these penguins are going to Hell because they are “fag penguins”.
LMAO
I have no doubt that he would :-)
I've heard other FReepers say that Fred Phelps and his loathsome family are actually deep-cover Leftists.....they do their utmost to create the most extreme, ludicrous caricature of Conservatives that they can but they actually have Leftist connections. If true, it would be entirely in keeping with Leftist protocol....when your argument or characterization of something or someone isn't supported by the facts and reality, manufacture a lie out of wholecloth and present it as an example to buttress your flawed characterization. Why rely on the truth when you can manufacture whatever lie you want without any worries of the Press calling you on it?
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