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African Penguins, Boulder Beach, Paul Mannix
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In our continuing effort to keep our readers apprised of all the current Gay Parent Bird news, we are happy to report that Z and Vielpunkt, two well-known gay male Humboldt penguins in the Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany are successfully raising an adopted chick together.
When the egg's heterosexual parents threw it out of their nest, the zookeepers put it in Z and Vielpunkt's nest. They faithfully cared for it for over a month until it hatched. (This sounds oddly similar to many of my friends' stories.) Anyone who has watched March of the Penguins knows how hard Z and Vielplunkt had to work to get that egg to hatch. Since then, they have been feeding it delicious fish mash and otherwise caring for it lovingly. Dads and chick are all thriving.
The zoo veterinarian says, "Homosexuality is nothing unusual among animals. Sex and coupling up in our world do not necessarily have anything to do with reproduction."
In addition to pioneering an alternative family structure, the family is doing its part to replenish the world's dwindling numbers of Humboldt penguins, a threatened species that lives on the coast of Chile and Peru.
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