A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeatedly stealing eggs have been given some of their own to look after following a protest by animal rights groups.
Last month the birds were segregated after they were caught placing stones at the feet of parents before waddling away with their eggs.
But angry visitors to Polar Land in Harbin, northern China, complained it wasn’t fair to stop the couple from becoming surrogate fathers and urged zoo bosses to give them a chance.
In response, zookeepers gave the pair two eggs laid by an inexperienced first-time mother.
‘We decided to give them two eggs from another couple whose hatching ability had been poor and they’ve turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo,’ said one of the keepers.
‘It’s very encouraging and if this works out well we will try to arrange for them to become real parents themselves with artificial insemination.’
Ah, progress.
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Emphasis on STEALING kids, thats the reason no one wanted to hangout with them, not because they were gay. I doubt very much the human equivalents would be able to get away with that either….or would they?
Who says the birds are gay? What criteria is used? Male penguins always hatch the eggs in the wild colonies while the females are away feeding. Being cloistered in a zoo in un-natural circumstances may short-circuit their instincts, but it doesn’t mean they’re ‘gay’. That is simply another silly anthropomorphism.
There’s a kids book about this (or a similar situation.)
http://www.amazon.ca/Tango-Makes-Three-Justin-Richardson/dp/0689878451/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229809294&sr=8-1