Here's a story that I would have thought for sure was an April Fool's Day hoax, except that it's not April Fools. It involves four female penguins being brought from Sweden to the Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany in order to test whether the male penguins there are gay or straight. Apparently the males seem a little confused about their sexuality:
"The males have been observed trying to mate with each other and trying to hatch offspring out of stones." So the zoo will add the females and see what happens. But reportedly gay activists are outraged by this, arguing that
"penguins had a right to form couples without human interference." A
more recent article reports that after a month the 'Swedish temptresses' have failed to turn the heads of the males. But are gay activists seriously protesting this, or are the protests tongue-in-cheek? Not being able to read the German sources, I'm not sure. If the Bremerhaven penguins really do turn out to be gay, then perhaps they can
run for president.
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It was also covered in the danish medis.
Joeodd, there's an amazing amount of documented homosexuality in many, many species, both in the wild and in captivity. Of course, that's irrelevant to the moral issue - it's an odd logical leap to equate 'natural' with 'right' and 'unnatural' with 'wrong', but a lot of people seem to fall for it.
Save the gay penguins!
Although it strikes me as likely that gay birds would know better than to waddle around in formal evening dress before 6 p.m.
http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2005/02/18/6
John.
And that's assuming the people that originally spoke out about it were gay activists to begin with, and not anti-gay activists trying to make GA's look bad, or pranksters.
Similarly, just because Alex has a hoax website doesn't mean that all male humans on Earth have a hoax website.
Dear reader: don't be fooled into using this story as an excuse to mock and rage against gay people. You're better than that. (optimist that I am)
SOME gay activists are, maybe. Not all of them.
Whithout the definite article the expression does not imply a unilateral response at all; the quantifier 'some' is simply not required.
The larger issue, of course, is that it's not terribly important what a penguin desires. If that were priority, the little guys wouldn't be living in captivity in the first place, I'm pretty sure.
What is important is the continuation of the species: the penguins have to produce offspring. (Hey, just like royalty.) If the penguins don't want to do it the old fashioned way, the zoo staff can masturbate the penguins and do artificial insemination, just like every other animal in the zoo. (if the tigers have to put up with it, why not the penguins too?) Once they produce some babies, they can have all the gay sex orgies they want (the penguins I mean).
http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1304&b=1
John.
These guys ditch the formal wear, drop the tuxedos, and get busy on ice.
The working title for the movie we're producing is going to be "Riding the North Pole" or "Fags in Formal Wear" or "Penguin Penises of Fury" or "Penguin Pitchers and Catchers". Which one do you guys thinks works better.
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