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[gridlore]

Egg stealing gay penguins?

I’ve heard of gay penguins before, but I hadn’t heard of this. A couple of gay gentoos at Polar Land in Harbin, China, had attempted to snatch eggs from the feet of other penguins. Devious little guys, aren’t they? What’s more devious is that they would actually replace the egg with stones in hopes the parents would not notice. However, the other penguins in the zoo have indeed noticed and have ostricized the gay couple from their group.

Obviously the penguins have the desire to become fathers as nature has deemed, but wow, these little guys certainly aren’t being bird brains. I think I may have seen an episode of Law & Order about this, only with humans (and no rocks, maybe). Anyway, I find the switcheroo interesting since the chinstraps from the New York City Zoo (i.e. And Tango Makes Three) were trying to use stones to incubate. They were later given an egg from keepers to hatch and raise as their own.

The keepers of the zoo have fenced them off from the other penguins so their hatching season isn’t disturbed. I think that’s perfectly understandable, not cruel at all, though it’s sad for these male penguins.

I guarantee you that for the next week my every waking hour will be occupied with thoughts of egg stealing gay penguins.

Comments

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Weren't some religious groups upholding penguins as exemplars of good family life?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yup, which was quite amusing to those of us who actually love the little libertines. Life in a penguin colony features prostitution, rape, adultery, and vengeance killings.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Very biblical, in other words?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Maybe a little less smiting, but yeah.

you weren't born....

[redc1c4.livejournal.com]

you were inflicted.

/white smoke

Re: you weren't born....

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I believe I was found in a basket floating down the Guadalupe River.