Gay penguins... hahaha

[winoman]

Happy thoughts.....certainly...

[CatWoman]

Ok I know you've all been impatiently waiting for updates on this mighty interesting story, lol , so before we get too mucn into the hidden meanings behind smilies , I'll give you the update:

Female penguins not seductive enough!! hahaha

Swedish penguins can't tempt mates
Posted Mon, 21 Feb 2005

Six male penguins at a German zoo are proving stubbornly resistant to the advances of four females brought in from Sweden to tempt them into breeding.

Of the ten male Humboldt penguins at the zoo in the northern port city of Bremerhaven, six have formed into 'homosexual' couples and have shown no interest in the females, making breeding an impossibility.

So the zoo imported the four penguins — named Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point — from Sweden last month, full of hope that the new arrivals could 'turn' the males.

But so far, the boys are remaining strictly with the boys.

"There hasn't been any contact between the penguins who were already here and the new penguins," the director of the zoo, Heike Kueck, told AFP last week.

"We brought in four females from a Swedish zoo because two years ago a couple of males separated when we introduced a female," Kueck said.

The zoo's decision to draft in the Swedish 'temptresses' has prompted a furious reaction from gay and lesbian groups.

A gay website in Austria has even launched a petition protesting against the treatment of the 'gay penguins', claiming it is "clear discrimination".

The German press has had great fun with the story, with Der Spiegel news weekly plastering a headline across two pages of photographs of the males penguins, saying: "They wear a suit, but they swing the other way."

Kueck said this was no laughing matter, because the Humboldt penguin is threatened with extinction, "so it is up to zoos to ensure they reproduce."

The Humboldt is normally found on the coast of Chile and Peru, but numbers have dropped to between 12,000 and 20,000 as industrial fishing methods have led to dwindling stocks of the anchovies on which they feed.

Some experts are also opposed to the zoo's attempts to persuade the penguins to breed.

Boris Culik, a researcher at the German national oceanographic institute in Kiel, said the zoo's initiative was "absurd".

"Just because they are endangered doesn't mean we have to try desperately to encourage them to breed in zoos," he told AFP.

Culik said the males' lack of interest in the new arrivals could be linked to hormonal problems or the length of time they have spent in captivity.

"And even in the penguin colonies in Chile and Peru, there are probably homosexual penguins, but it is impossible to tell because there is nothing to distinguish the males from the females and only a very close examination can determine the gender."

[nunechka]

thats great!!! lol! i love animals they remind us of our natural side...

thats why i am ALL FOR public urination...

so does this mean that if men are left together for too long that they will also fall in love with each other??? YES! LOL! I LOVE hot homosexual sexy love in prisons...

[Deamn]

I like that monkey picture

[nunechka]

what about koko's nipple fetish? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...AGM9BDI191.DTL

[ckBejug]

what about koko's nipple fetish? http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...AGM9BDI191.DTL

Gorilla nipple fetish? That's just weird dude.


Of course he used PINK! lol

"There's a history with this nipple thing," he said, leafing through the transcript and pointing out the word "nipple" -- which he'd highlighted in pink -- each time it appeared.

[ckBejug]

There was also 'news' of the gay penguins in New York a few years ago...

Wendell and Cass, two gay penguins at the New York Aquarium.

They're in love. They're gay. They're penguins... And they're not alone. By Cristina Cardoze

Wendell and Cass, two penguins at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn, live in a soap opera world of seduction and intrigue. Among the 22 male and 10 female African black-footed penguins in the aquarium's exhibit, tales of love, lust and betrayal are the norm. These birds mate for life. But given the disproportionate male-female ratio at the aquarium, some of the females flirt profusely and dump their partners for single males with better nests.

Wendell and Cass, however, take no part in these cunning schemes. They have been completely devoted to each other for the last eight years. In fact, neither one of them has ever been with anyone else, says their keeper, Stephanie Mitchell.

But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.

This is not unusual. "There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books."

One particular book is helpful in this case. Bruce Bagemihl's "Biological Exuberance," published in 1999, documents homosexual behavior in more than 450 animal species. The list includes grizzly bears, gorillas, flamingos, owls and even several species of salmon.

"The world is, indeed, teeming with homosexual, bisexual and transgendered creatures of every stripe and feather," Bagemihl writes in the first page of his book. "From the Southeastern Blueberry Bee of the United States to more than 130 different bird species worldwide, the 'birds and the bees,' literally, are queer."

In New York, it's the penguins.

At the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy, two male Chinstrap penguins, have been in an exclusive relationship for four years. Last mating season, they even fostered an egg together.

"They got all excited when we gave them the egg," said Rob Gramzay, senior keeper for polar birds at the zoo. He took the egg from a young, inexperienced couple that hatched an extra and gave it to Silo and Roy. "And they did a really great job of taking care of the chick and feeding it."

Of the 53 penguins in the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy are not the only ones that are gay. In 1997, the park had four pairs of homosexual penguins. In an effort to increase breeding, zookeepers tried to separate them by force. They failed, said Gramzay.

Only one of the eight bonded with a female. The rest went back to same-sex relationships, not necessarily with the same partner. Silo and Roy, long-time homosexuals, got together (or pair-bonded, in official penguin lingo) after that failed experiment.

At the New York Aquarium, no one suspected Wendell and Cass were gay when they first bonded. Penguins don't have external sex organs, so visually there's no surefire way to tell whether they are male or female. But over time, people began to wonder.

In all the years they had been together, neither Wendell nor Cass laid an egg. This was unusual because the keepers knew they copulated regularly. They had often seen Wendell submit to Cass, the more dominating of the two. But one day, a keeper saw Wendell on top.

When penguins have sex, the female lies on her belly and the male climbs on top with his feet and puts his rump around her rump. Then their cloacas (sexual organs) meet, and the sperm is transferred into the female. It's called the cloacal kiss.

Wendell and Cass were clearly kissing both ways. So in 1999, the aquarium did a blood test to determine their gender. It proved they were both male.

Today, they are one of the best couples at the aquarium. "Sometimes they lie on the rocks together," Mitchell said. "They're one of the few couples that like to hang out together outside their nest."

Wendell and Cass have a highly coveted nest. During mating season, several other penguins have tried to steal it. Cass, a fierce fighter, kept them at bay. (Wendell, on the other hand, is "afraid of his own shadow," said Mitchell.)

The appeal of their nest is the location: high up, close to the water and the feeding station. Rumors that they keep the neatest nest at the aquarium because they're gay are not true.

"These are penguins," said Mitchell. "They poop in their nest. Nobody's got a clean nest."

[nunechka]

it was on CNN ABC NBC and even CBS

LOL! i love the news of the US, its soooo full of crap that makes no difference in our lives

[CatWoman]

it was on CNN ABC NBC and even CBS

LOL! i love the news of the US, its soooo full of crap that makes no difference in our lives

Yup, not only that, but it's all local, except for maybe CNN. Probably why Americans are so self-centered.

At the Central Park Zoo, Silo and Roy, two male Chinstrap penguins, have been in an exclusive relationship for four years. Last mating season, they even fostered an egg together.

"They got all excited when we gave them the egg," said Rob Gramzay, senior keeper for polar birds at the zoo. He took the egg from a young, inexperienced couple that hatched an extra and gave it to Silo and Roy. "And they did a really great job of taking care of the chick and feeding it."

So funny, how the hell did they figure out what an egg was if neither one of them laid the egg so obviously neither one had that maternal feelings required to foster the egg? How did they do it?
Just like a gay couple when they get all happy and excited when adopting a child!

[nunechka]

have you seen the movie Pleasantville? well in this movie the students are only taugh about their street as their geography lesson... THATS! ALL AMERICAN right there...



AND *meow* to cuitie pie catwoman! for making VERY GOOD points all the time...

Edit: Grow up. There's no need to bash Anonymouse in every single post you make.