Taken from BBC

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.

Since the chick arrived, they have been behaving just as you would expect a heterosexual couple to do
Bremerhaven zoo

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.

"Since the chick arrived, they have been behaving just as you would expect a heterosexual couple to do. The two happy fathers spend their days attentively protecting, caring for and feeding their adopted offspring."

Humboldt penguins are normally found in coastal Peru and Chile, but their numbers have been dwindling due to overfishing, reports the AFP news agency.

'Drive to mate'

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 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.

Professor West says it has been suggested that homosexual activity could serve various purposes - for instance, it may relate to social bonding and establishment of dominance among bonobo chimps, while in some bird species, females may come together to rear young.

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."

Those penguins and their gay agenda.

KAG:

Those penguins and their gay agenda.

Yet people still argue that It is not a natural occurrence.

And I guess the new chick is a natural occurence. Activists will allow chicks to be brought in but will not allow female penguins. Talk about a Ph.D in doctoring.

Funny how those benighted apologists for homophobia (usually the bigotted Christian literalists and bible bashing faith-heads)  who claim that homosexuality is "unnatutral" are avoiding addressing this thread.  They perform their quintessential ignore-the-evidence act and bury their heads in the stinking cesspit of the bible.  What is this world coming to, with these Christians on the loose?

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And I guess the new chick is a natural occurence. Activists will allow chicks to be brought in but will not allow female penguins. Talk about a Ph.D in doctoring.

OH, yes. Everything that exists is natural. From having sex with camels or with ones grandmother, cannibalism, etc, etc. These are ALL natural acts. Can anything exist that is NOT natural?

huxley2:

OH, yes. Everything that exists is natural. From having sex with camels or with ones grandmother, cannibalism, etc, etc. These are ALL natural acts. Can anything exist that is NOT natural?

yes. reasoning with the anus is NOT natural!!!

this was CLEARLY an engineered event. To force home the false point that being gay is "natural" even among animals. Would the penguins have been "gay" if they had females to choose from? Why were female animals specifically prevented from being paired with the male penguins?

huxley2:

The zoo made headlines in 2005 over plans to "test" the sexual orientation of penguins with homosexual traits.

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.

If you put 2 male goats in a pen alone with no females . . . you'll see them trying to ride each other, its not that they are gay.

Well i feel huxley is free to bring himself to the level of lower animals, why don't you go and find a gay mate and justify this "natural" behaviour.

KunleOshob:

Well i feel huxley is free to bring himself to the level of lower animals, why don't you go and find a gay mate and justify this "natural" behaviour.

@KunleOshob
Well said brother!! Now we can see just how "rational" huxley is!! -->

Huxley suggests that we humans should be gay JUST BECAUSE penguins are!!!!

So much for science and rationality!

LOL

If you put 2 male goats in a pen alone with no females . . . you'll see them trying to ride each other, its not that they are gay.

would the same happen if i lock you up in a prison for years with another man and no contact with the outside world 

engineered to be gay my ass.

imhotep:

@KunleOshob
Well said brother!! Now we can see just how "rational" huxley is!! -->

Huxley suggests that we humans should be gay JUST BECAUSE penguins are!!!!

So much for science and rationality!

LOL

lmfao rofl

we should start licking our own arses and eating our own shits while we are at it.

bawomolo:

would the same happen if i lock you up in a prison for years with another man and no contact with the outside world 

that's why we are more intelligent than goats. We know the diff between right and wrong. But of course i'm assuming you're more intelligent than a goat, i may be wrong.

davidylan:

that's why we are more intelligent than goats. We know the diff between right and wrong. But of course i'm assuming you're more intelligent than a goat, i may be wrong.

so a goat is not intelligent to know it is soley attracted to the opposite sex? hmm

It's a bit of a stretch to conclude from sexual activity with anything other than the opposite sex that such sexual activity is innate.

If examples of animals humping signposts are found, does that mean humping signposts is acceptable?

If you look hard enough, you will find an astonishing array of sexual oddities within the animal kingdom. It doesn't prove anything either way

bawomolo:

so a goat is not intelligent to know it is soley attracted to the opposite sex? hmm

that is pretty lame and i would suggest you read 4Play's post. Goats will nibble human feces . . . does that mean it is acceptable human behaviour?

If you keep animals in captivity with no mate long enough they will show signs of "odd" behaviour. It is interesting that gay rights groups vocally objected to having females with the alleged gay penguins for the simple excuse that it would be "interfering in the animals' behaviour" . . . i find that odd. Where they afraid the animals werent really gay at all and would simply revert to female partners?

why do you think gay activities are more prominent in prisons? Lock a dude up for 30 yrs with no access to females, he's bound to think up something.

why do you think gay activities are more prominent in prisons? Lock a dude up for 30 yrs with no access to females, he's bound to think up something.

i don't think nelson mandela had such tendencies. Maybe they already had such booty piracy curiosity?

just maybe? Anyway the thought of gay penguins is just hilarious. those beautiful birds.