San Francisco's gay penguin has a change of heart

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[Maelstorm]

LOS ANGELES — After six years together, the relationship between a pair of gay male penguins at San Francisco zoo is apparently over, with Harry leaving Pepper for another penguin -- Linda.

The Los Angeles Times reported Friday that the relationship between Harry and Pepper, who lived side-by-side, protecting eggs abandoned by other penguins, came to a shocking end when Harry moved into a neighboring nest with recently-widowed Linda.

The development has sparked a variety of reactions in the blogosphere, where Linda has been called a "home wrecker" who "lives for her own happiness, no matter who gets hurt."

Harrison Edell, a curator of birds at the zoo, had a more pragmatic explanation, noting that Linda's recently-deceased partner was a leader of sorts among the small zoo penguin community, commanding not one but two nests.

"For penguins, real estate means a lot," Edell told the Los Angeles Times, so "as far as penguins go, she was a pretty attractive prospect."

With Pepper rejoining the ranks of the single, Christian website OneNewsNow.com took the split as a sign that "nature prefers heterosexual relationships."

Others were more sympathetic to the bereft Pepper.

John, writing on "The Frigging Loon" blog, said he was "heartbroken" about the split and that he hopes Pepper "finds another male penguin that is ten times hotter than Harry!"

[Sloth]

She’s got huge... tracts of land!

[Maelstorm]

I’ve seen a lot. Animals do a lot of things. I’ve never been one to find the argument convincing that because a behavior is observed in animals that it is validated or a good behavior for humans. I’ve seen a dog humping a cat. I also observed what is more often the case which is smaller males being forcibly raped. Great apes same sex coupling is almost always tied to suppressing and forcing submission. I’ve never seen cats involved in gay sex, if it does happen it is probably not very common though is probably more likely in cases where the animals have no access to females.

[Maelstorm]

Ahh shucks missanne. :-)

[Maelstorm]

Exactly it is stupidity. Animals do a lot of things that people do and they do a lot of things that they don’t. They sniff butts to say hello, eat feces, eat their young, etc which are things normal people would never do. Most animals are driven by one thing to reproduce. You will almost never find them exclusively homosexual, many of them mate with anything literally. I saw a lizard trying to mate with a plastic gecko.

[fatnotlazy]

From what the owner of the cats told me, it seems that adolescent cats sometimes get confused. They know they want to do the deed; they just don’t know who to do it with.

[SpinnerWebb]

Nah...he's just Bi-POLAR... >rimshot<

so, this bi-polar penguin is having car problems, and takes it to his buddy the walrus, who's a mechanic. Walrus tells him that it will be an hour or so before he can diagnose the issue, so penguin takes a stroll.

On his way back, he passes an Eskimo Pie vendor, so he buys one, and is just licking the last of it off the stick when he walks into walrus' garage.

Walrus looks up and, seeing penguin returning for his diagnosis on his car, says "hey, man... it looks like you blew a seal."

Penguin, taking his flipper and wiping his beak replies "Oh, no... it's just a little ice cream".

[massgopguy]

“She didn’t care who got hurt”? Isn’t that why the guys in Brokeback Mountain were hailed as heroes by gay guys?

[Beowulf9]

Awww. I love wild birds.

Well, he’s still in YOUR yard, mom:)