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Gay Penguins Take a Chick

And baby makes three for two gay penguins at Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo. "Z" and "Vielpunkt" have adopted the baby chick they were tasked with looking after before it hatched.


And baby makes three for two gay penguins at Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo.

"Z" and "Vielpunkt" have adopted the baby chick they were tasked with looking after before it hatched.

"Another couple threw the egg out of their batch," the zoo's vet said in a statement. "We picked it up and put it in the nest of the gay penguins."

The penguin duo immediately took over and looked after the egg for 35 days before it hatched. The chick was born on April 25, and the penguin duo has been looking after it since.

This isn't the first time gay penguin parents have been in the news.

Central Park Zoo's Roy and Silo made headlines for trying to incubate a rock in their nest. A zookeeper eventually gave the penguins a fertile egg to hatch. Months later, a chick was born.

Scientists eager to prove that homosexuality is not a choice have used Roy and Silo as an example, arguing that if it happens among animals in nature, it can't be immoral.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: Matt
    Date posted: 6/5/2009 1:09:00 PM
    Hometown: Dauphin

    Comment:

    That last line is horrible. If homosexuality happens in animals, that proves it can;t be immoral. What kind of sense does that make? How does it happening in nature make it moral? Animals kill and eat each other, so it must be alright to do!

  • Name: Laun
    Date posted: 6/5/2009 12:31:00 AM
    Hometown: Greensburg

    Comment:

    Look how instinctive they are, they should be role models for other species. That's really special, cool, and inspiring. I think that people, if they could drop their prejudgements they would find that their are alot of compassionate, loving couples that make ideal parents, sometimes even more than heterosexual couples. Homosexuals are often bright, intouch with their innerselfs, harbor less anger and hatred. Show mercy and understanding, mainly because of the hardships and trials they go through being down trodden by straights who can't accept or stop hating. I find this article very touching and a lesson for us all. Now if we could get the human species to treat all of its members as well. There would be no abandoned or disguarded kids or babies. WAY to go penguins they're role models and examples to us all.

  • Name: JuliefromCompass
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 11:55:00 PM
    Hometown: Lake Worth

    Comment:

    I just freakin love this!

  • Name: James
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 11:40:00 PM
    Hometown: Los Angeles

    Comment:

    That is so sweet. I hope the best for this new family. Some people just don't love themselves enough, so they take their frustration out on someone or a group of people that they don't understand.

  • Name: Mario
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 9:08:00 PM
    Hometown: Portland

    Comment:

    Thats so cute, if only Pixar had the courage to make a movie about this maybe people would realize that its love that makes a family.

  • Name: Will
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 8:15:00 PM
    Hometown: Mt. Pleasant, MI

    Comment:

    Congrats! ; )

  • Name: Scott W
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 5:36:00 PM
    Hometown: Denver, Co.

    Comment:

    Looks like gay penguins make a better set of parents than angry Focus on the Family Heterosexual Humans any day!

  • Name: Kalynn
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 5:22:00 PM
    Hometown: Orange

    Comment:

    Although I am thrilled for the new parents and just wish i could hug them, I doubt this will convince anyone that homosexuality isn't immoral. Those of us who already know who we are and accept it don't need another reason to love ourselves. And those who see us as abominations will hop on the chance to compare us with bestiality again.

  • Name: Jonboy
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 4:00:00 PM
    Hometown: Winner, SD

    Comment:

    Another 'gay' family prospers.

  • Name: John B
    Date posted: 6/4/2009 2:23:00 PM
    Hometown: Omaha

    Comment:

    Way to go, boys!!



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