Posted on 05/21/2007 10:30:49 AM PDT by presidio9
A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.
Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.
But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.
"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.
"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."
Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.
"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males," she said.
My question is are they really two male flamingos or a sterile female and a male?
What a ridiculous lie.
Also seen in the animal kingdom:
Rape
Infanticide
Incest
Cannibalism
eating feces
child abandonment
...the list goes on and on. Curiously, there is no such thing as “marriage” in the animal kingdom.
The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.Do the funky chicken.
Actually, gay animal threads are always relevant to this forum, because of the reek of desperation from the buttsex crowd.
Brother, did you just hit the nail squarely on the head!
I am so tired of the homos and other Liberal Trash in this country, and their media sycophants, reinventing words to establish a frame of mind.
An alternate reality, as it were, as if Superman's bizarro twin living on bizzaro world is the norm now in Americo.
Gay?? Sounds like a newspeak word for fag, queer, or homo.
The fact that they are not packing fecal matter up each other's rectums is ignored.
ping
It appeals to those who have already been brainwashed by the Godless into the notion that man is just another animal, so if there is same-sex attraction among animals, why not among people? The MSM is in league with the queers in spreading their propaganda.....
Well, they are birds..... Might have something to do with their peckers.
Exactly! There are a lot of behaviors in the animal kingdom that we don’t want to imitate. Why should homosexual behavior among animals persuade someone that it’s somehow normal and natural and worthy of humans being that way?
When are they moving to Massachusetts to be married?
Great news for the flamingos! They will be invited to the Oprah Winfrey show, and be priviliged guests at the next democrat convention! Special laws will be passed to give them the same rights as humans. Anyone who says anything derogatory about their arrangement will be arrested for a hate crime!
Exactly, just because they sit on eggs together doesn’t mean they are Gay. It is a homo-erotic fantasy of the Left that they can be, so they assign human traits to animals where none exist.
O. M. G.....LOLLLLLL!
Anthropomorphism.........
There are numerous animals that mate for life.
That's a lot closer to true marriage than a lot of Americans get.
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