'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick

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'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick

Post by klr » Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:30 am

'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick

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.

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:20 am

Boo. I already posted a link in "Stupid News Stories". :hmph:
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Post by klr » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:22 am

Gawdzilla wrote:Boo. I already posted a link in "Stupid News Stories". :hmph:
Well, I didn't think to look there (too busy catching up on a truckload of work). :lay:

And it's not stupid. Not to the fundies who will be suitably outraged. :mob:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:24 am

klr wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Boo. I already posted a link in "Stupid News Stories". :hmph:
Well, I didn't think to look there (too busy catching up on a truckload of work). :lay:

And it's not stupid. Not to the fundies who will be suitably outraged. :mob:
"Stupid/Silly/Strange News Stories"? :think:
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Post by CP » Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:53 pm

Aww how cute! They get to have their baby and the abandoned chick gets loving parents.
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CP wrote:Aww how cute! They get to have their baby and the abandoned chick gets loving parents.
Yeah, and they'll teach it all kind of perverted things and it will never have chicks of its own. End of penguin-kind as we know it.
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Post by CP » Sun Jun 14, 2009 2:57 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
CP wrote:Aww how cute! They get to have their baby and the abandoned chick gets loving parents.
Yeah, and they'll teach it all kind of perverted things and it will never have chicks of its own. End of penguin-kind as we know it.
Oh no, all the penguins are going to catch gay?! Maybe they'll become maladjusted little vandals too! This must be stopped! :o
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:00 pm

CP wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
CP wrote:Aww how cute! They get to have their baby and the abandoned chick gets loving parents.
Yeah, and they'll teach it all kind of perverted things and it will never have chicks of its own. End of penguin-kind as we know it.
Oh no, all the penguins are going to catch gay?! Maybe they'll become maladjusted little vandals too! This must be stopped! :o
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