Posted on 06/03/2009 4:26:03 PM PDT by lewisglad
Two "gay" male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo.
The zoo, in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, says the adult males - Z and Vielpunkt - were given an egg which was rejected by its biological parents.
It says the couple are now happily rearing the chick, said to have reached four weeks old.
The zoo made headlines in 2005 over plans to "test" the sexual orientation of penguins with homosexual traits.
Three pairs of male penguins had been seen attempting to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring from stones.
The zoo flew in four females in a bid to get the endangered birds to reproduce - but quickly abandoned the scheme after causing outrage among gay rights activists, who accused it of interfering in the animals' behaviour.
The six "gay" penguins remain at the zoo, among them Z and Vielpunkt who are now rearing the chick together after being given the rejected egg.
"Z and Vielpunkt, both males, gladly accepted their 'Easter gift' and got straight down to raising it," said a zoo statement.
There have been previous reports of exclusive male-to-male pairings among penguins, some of which have also included the rearing of chicks.
Homosexual behaviour in is well documented in many different animals, but it is not understood in detail, says Professor Stuart West, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford.
Other animals may simply exhibit a "drive to mate", while others may, like humans, enjoy non-procreative sexual activity.
"Homosexuality is nothing unusual among animals," Bremerhaven zoo said on Wednesday.
"Sex and coupling up in our world do not necessarily have anything to do with reproduction."
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Penguins are about the dumbest beasts on the face of the earth [they hatch eggs in -40 deg and + 60 mph winds].
They have an excuse for being gay.
yep
survival of their species
using their logic, the tv show Full House had three “gay” men in it because they were all (daddy, joey, jesse) raising the olsen twins, plus DJ and stephanie.
taking it to it’s logical conclusion, any men that are sharing expenses and are roommates are gay even though they aren’t having gay sex?
I'll be they like putting fishsticks in their mouth.
These people need to spend a little time on a farm.
It is obvious that they know little about the natural behavior of animals.
Either that or they interpret everything they see through their “Homo Goggles”.
The lengths to which homosexuals will attribute human perversions to animals is beyond belief. Last time I checked, I’ve never seen penguins in leather chaps poking each other where they poop or performing male/male oral debauchery. Sorry, but nature is designed to weed this stuff out. If two prevert penguins, Larry and Bruce, got together - they wouldn’t be able to breed and would end their DNA line. It’s only mankind that tries to coddle and encourage perversity.
How was the egg conceived? Did two perverted homosexual penguins conceive the egg? NO.
It was conceived by heterosexual penguins then abandoned for some reason.
So now some zoo people give it to two so called homosexual penguins and they are raising it. Big deal. This does nothing to defend the perverted homosexual agenda.
Homosexuals cannot conceive a child. This alone is why homosexuality is a perversion.
Abort the gay penguins.
“Three pairs of male penguins had been seen attempting to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring from stones. “
Mental illness.
Doesn't sound like they've had much luck either mating or hatching non-eggs.
They are seriesly confused.
Right. I’m aware that the males protect the egg, but I wasn’t aware that two males did it together.
In any event, I don’t think they are “gay” penguins, as much as the homo-lobby wishes us to believe it.
Filthy, disease-ridden penguins?
I don’t think animals can be gay in a human sense. They get the urge to mate and sometimes pretty much hump anything they can, whether its a member of the same sex, an inanimate object, or even other species. They also hump each other to show dominance.
Plus as other people have said, its normal for male penguins to want to raise eggs. If it was mating season or whatever and these penguins didn’t have mates, its not surprising they’d try humping each other.
It is sad that will not bring these penguins mates due to pressure. Obviously they know that the penguins will mate with the females, proving they are not “gay.”
I’m sure everyone has seen an animal hump an inanimate object. That doesn’t mean they have a fetish like this woman - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html
Animals sometimes aren’t too bright and do stupid stuff when full of hormones.
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