Posted on 02/08/2005 3:04:49 AM PST by MadIvan
A German zoo has imported four female penguins from Sweden in an effort to tempt its gay penguins to go straight.
The four Swedish females were dispatched to the Bremerhaven Zoo in Bremen after it was found that three of the zoo's five penguin pairs were homosexual.
Keepers at the zoo ordered DNA tests to be carried out on the penguins after they had been mating for years without producing any chicks.
It was only then they realised that six of the birds were living in homosexual partnerships.
Director Heike Kueck said that the zoo hoped to see some baby penguins in the coming months.
She said that the birds had been mating for years and one couple even adopted a stone that they protected like an egg.
Kueck said that the project has the support of the European Endangered Species Programme because the penguins, which are native to South America, are an endangered species.
A biologist will be on hand to monitor the experiment.
But introducing the Bremerhaven penguins to their new Swedish friends may not be as successful as hoped after earlier experiments revealed great difficulties in separating homosexual couples.
In case they show no interest, the zoo has also flown in two new male penguins "so that the ladies don't miss out altogether", Kueck added.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
Are Germans flipping out or something?? This is silly.
The zookeepers should have been suspicious long ago. What kind of guy wears a tuxedo all the time?
Metrosexuals in tuxedos.....
Somebody has got WAY to much slack time or must be supported by taxpayers......
/ Angry Swede
You may have a point...
--Boot Hill
I had no idea how far and how deeply, this Tolkienitis has spread. The power of the story has become self-evident. It particularly appeals to those with some modicum of intelligence and not because it is complex or esoteric. That you think so much of this epic, speaks well of you IMHO. Also, and please pass the butter if you would, you are one of the "order of wizards" at Free Republic.
Some other stories that have much the same appeal, for me at least, are: Dune by Frank Herbert; the Lensman series by Doc Smith; Weapon Shops and Null-A by A.E. VanVogt (a true genius); almost anything by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
"et tu, Boothill". You also, seem to have an eye for the true classics.
And if they didn't know the sex, were they TRYING to promote homosexuality.
One step further...if homosexuality was "a good thing", this penguin group would go by the way of extinction.
How terrible.
Strange you should say that - at a previous job, I had a team of developers working for me - one wore the ring of Aragorn, another was a blonde fellow who was a sharpshooter in his spare time, and another was a short fellow. Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, in other words. We had our Arwen, our Eowyn, even a Galadriel on that team too. As for me, I was Gandalf the Grey. Though considering that firm went through an apocalyptic change, and battles with worse than a Balrog of Morgoth, I'm Gandalf the White now. :)
Regards, Ivan
A penguin was driving through the desert when his car broke down. He waddled to the nearest phone to call AAA. His car was quickly towed to the nearest garage where the mechanic told him he would need a couple of hours to check out the car.
The penguin, being a good natured bird, didn't complain but wandered off to find the closest supermarket. He proceeded to the frozen foods section and hung out near the fish sticks. After an hour he got in the freezer next to the vanilla ice cream and ate several gallons.
Then he saw the time and went back to the garage covered in ice cream. The mechanic walked over to him wiping his hands and shaking his head saying, "It looks like you blew a seal." Blushing, the penguin said, "Oh no! It's just ice cream."
How can the penguins go straight? The homos have told us that once you go gay you are there to stay. And the homos would never lie would they?
It's always so much fun to watch people wrestle with the colliding ideologies in their heads. (Like when PETA fluffheads like Pamela Anderson rush their sick kids to the emergency room & willingly accept all kinds of animal-tested diagnostic & therapeutic meds for their precious hominid babies.)
They adopted a stone and protected it like an egg?
Homosexual AND stupid.
I'd say it was natural selection in action, improving the gene pool by removing unreproductive mutations. But that's just me.
Regards, Ivan
Ping.
~giggles~
Well YEAH! Look what they have to work with being in a ZOO!
No different than what happens to straights confined to long prison terms.
Although penguins are usually monogamous creatures (per season or brood), there are some Antarctic females that are essentially whores. Rocks for nest building are used as "currency" by the males for sex. An already mated female will solicit other partnerless males for the precious rocks. It has been observed that some females can just go through the mating motions without copulation and get rocks. Humans call this a "tease".
Here's an article about it http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/60302.stm
Uh oh, NW_AZ. All those penguin articles finally sent Vel over the edge.
This gives me a chilly willy just thinkin' about it.
'nuff said. . .
The left will go to ANY lengths to advocate a homosexual life-style...even this triple lame transparent effort to legitimize homosexuality.
They're message here is..."look, it occurs even among animals...it must be natural!"
Well in one respect they could be right...with leftist liberals, being the closest thing we have to the mentality of the animal kingdom, it could very well be a natural inclination.
Meanwhile, the male penguins don't really care as long as they get their rocks off.
;-)
Welcome.
"Super!"
That is very interesting!
So they want the rocks for nests...I was under the impression they thought the rocks were eggs.
Sleezy females, men wanting to trick them for sex, females making use of the men just to get the goods...
So many thoughts...where do I begin?! :^)
Penguins are very interesting. Especially the Emperors (the largest penguins), although they do not whore for rocks since they have no nest. The male is entrusted with the single egg for the entire two month incubation period. He keeps it on top of his feet and under his belly to keep it warm and off the permafrost. Goodness knows what the female is doing for those two months "out looking for food". It is routine for an Emperor to dive to 300m, and stay down as long as 15 minutes.
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