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'Gay' Penguins?

I heard about this story on the NPR news quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" This is one of the funniest shows on the air. But one story that they discussed was stranger then fiction. It was about Gay Humboldt Penguins in Germany. At first it sounds like a bad joke, but for the Zoo in Bremerhaven it is not a laughing matter. They brought in some female penguins to try and mate with the gay penguins. This attempt at making the gay penguins made some gay activists angry. The zoo defended its attempt to mate the gay penguins by arguing that "We're simply trying to help save a threatened species." This statement was made by Heike Kück who is one of the officials at the Zoo who is responsible for the plan. The plan to mate the penguins consisted of flying 4 female penguins in from Sweden to see if they had any influence on the male penguins. As it turns out, they ladies from Sweden did not make any headway with the male Humboldt penguins that are, according to the Daily Telegraph, a bird whose homosexual tendencies are well known to zoologists.

posted by Marquise at 6:51 AM