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[odycee]

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In other news:  Gay outrage over penguin sex test.

"Gay rights activists have protested at a north German zoo's plans to test the sexual orientation of six male penguins which have displayed homosexual traits.

Bremerhaven's Zoo am Meer said it would introduce four extra female penguins from Sweden to the group to see if the males really were gay.

But zoo director Heike Kueck said "gay groups worldwide have been cursing us since that announcement".

The zoo says it just wants to encourage the rare Humboldt penguins to breed.

The males have been observed trying to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring out of stones.

"We don't know whether the three male pairs are really homosexual or whether they have just bonded because of a shortage of females," said Mrs Kueck, quoted by Germany's Der Spiegel news magazine.

Gay groups insisted that penguins had a right to form couples without human interference, she said.

"Nobody here wants to forcibly separate homosexual couples," she said.

Only one baby Humboldt penguin has been born at the zoo, which has six males and four females, Der Spiegel reports."

Um. They're threatened with extinction. Though the idea of the two males trying to hatch a stone is rather cute surely it's better to see if they actually will breed?

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[odycee.livejournal.com]

I don't even think it's a pro-heterosexual thing. If they weren't an endangered species therefore making it advantageous for them to breed, I'm pretty sure that they'd be left well alone.

And as you say, if it's true love, no female penguin will get a look in! It's a pretty cute story anyway - them settling down to incubate a rock. I'm sure that in the other gay penguin story I heard (because there's so many of them!) they actually geve the couple an abandoned egg and they brought it up as their own chick.

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

Oh god that is much too cute. I have noticed there are a lot of gay penguin stories out there. I wonder why that is. You don't hear a lot about gay sheep.

I'd just say the zoologists are being pro-heterosexual in the sense that they're being realistic and up front about their desire for more penguins, and a bunch of boy penguins (however adorably attached to one another) aren't going to get them anywhere. But I don't think that their being proactive in trying to usher in some basic heterosexual mating makes them anti-gay. That's silly. Good for them for not catering to political correctness at the expense of common sense.

Seriously. If housecats were teetering on the edge of extinction and GLAAD had six male cats but didn't want to introduce them to any girl kitties, there would be rioting in the streets. I very much appreciate that the male penguins might loff each other, but extinction sucks.

[odycee.livejournal.com]

Here's one! The NY couple: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4352011/

There was a bisexual pony on the same field as Oscar a few years ago. Oscar loved her and she used to let him mount her (he's a gelding but you wouldn't think it sometimes!) but she used to mount the other mares as well. Oscar was very upset when we moved him off the field!

[fourleftxaviers.livejournal.com]

Heh. That's funny about Oscar.

You know, I remember that article. And the San Fransisco slideshow attached to that page. The couples all look so happy.