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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I wonder what else they "reared".
Leave it to degenerate minds to stamp penguins as ‘gay’ because they feel the drive to protect the endangered young penguins. I lost my tolerance of the homosexual degenerates long ago. And they are building up a heck of a lot of negative karma with the ever increasing insistance they be accepted as normal. They aren’t and never will be without medical help.
I say the penguins are confused, which is kind of saying the same thing.
I felt kind of sorry for the chick, but then the coffee kicked in.
If my dog climbs in bed with me does that mean he is gay and want to have sex with me. I DON’T THINK SO. Where do they get off with this stuff.
Just you wait until the “gay” penguins get their own proposition then start protesting the Mormon penguins who didn’t want any part of this crap..
"Super!"
Penguin pedophiles. Deviancy knows no limits.
Gay penguins ping!!!
I blame it on “Penguin Lust.”
Go Wings!
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.
Seriously? Now they're protesting that gay penguins are being oppressed?
What next? Demands to legalize gay penguin marriage
Life imitates "South Park".
There was a story a while back that said the straight penguins had ostracized the homosexual penguins from their community because the homosexual penguins has been attempting to steal their eggs. Hows that for testing the behaviors of animals?
Actually, they’re not confused. This behavior (males raising chicks) is a normal part of penguin life. After laying eggs, the females return to the sea for food while the males hatch the eggs. The females return with food for themselves and the chicks and the males then take their turn to get food. There’s nothing gay about it.
“What next? Demands to legalize gay penguin marriage”
Apparently it is already legal in NH (as long as they are consenting and committed).
I don’t like the way that gays rear kids.
Emperor penguin males incubate the egg alone. The females all haul ass and leave the males alone. I think the fine prancing fellows know this, which is why they gave the adult males an egg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgGL6SbMfKc
Call me crazy but wo/men are not animals, nor are we supposed to behave like them.
I guess Darwin's THEORY never sunk in.
Time to legalize human-penguin marriage. Penguinophiles deserve equality.
This is just so retarded.
Oops, thought this was a Stanley Cup thread about Penguins' Crosby.........
You said that much better than I, good post.
Are these the same penguins that were forced to commune only with same-sex penguins until they exhibited the approved behavior? IOW, they were victims of a perverted socialization experiment from the get-go? Any perceived “gayness” then, would be environmental - a result of psychological abuse by the researchers. Says a lot.
Cmon, June is National Gay Month....Obama said so:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263744/posts
This is the money line. Males cannot mate with each other. Put enough stress on an animal, like perhaps life in a zoo, and animals will still rely on instincts, albeit misdirected.
I suspect if an otter lived with a sex-deprived penguin in a zoo, the otter might have to have its head on a swivel to protect its "honor".
Uh, no they didn't. They are still gay, right? (you can't make this stuff up).
My first ducks were a pair of females, they had duck sex or the lesbian equivalent every morning. We got them a male and all was well.
Animals of various species do all sorts of wierd behaviors, including mating behaviors. They are not humans, so such things are irrelevant for what humans do or should do.
I was wondering the same thing.
Talk is cheap from some people. Others it requires a lot of thought to see around the satire!
The Discovery Channel’s sometimes useful. :^)
In a zoo, it takes zookeepers moving an already fertilized egg into proximity of purposefully identified “gay” penguins and hoping survival instincts kick in an the egg is “reared”.
In nature, no homosexual couple has successfully procreated in 4 billion years. It takes stress in the environment, disease, overpopulation, etc., to cause certain weakened species to exhibit homosexual activity. Further, it takes an entire system of man-made controls (zoos or court systems) to afford homosexuals the right to rear anything other than each other.
So we’re taking our social cues from critters? How freeing.
Now we can shake hands and introduce ourselves the way dogs do.
We can eat poop like the chimps in the zoo.
We can eat the placenta, raw, the way many mammals do.
We can bite when threatened or provoked.
We can sleep 22 hours a day, like my dogs.
We can drop one on any person any time, like the bonobo apes.
We seem to be headed there as a culture.
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.
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