Same-sex Penguin Couple Split Up by Homewrecker Penguin, Linda.

I'm sure the fundies will love this.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/12/Same-sex-penguin-couple-split/UPI-56931247417354/


Same-sex penguin couple split

SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (UPI) -- Linda the penguin has split up two male penguins who lived as a nesting couple for six years at the San Francisco Zoo, caretakers said.

Male penguins Harry and Pepper had been so content together they were allowed to incubate and hatch an egg laid by another Magellanic penguin last year, zookeeper Anthony Brown said.

"Of all of the parents that year, they were the best. They took very good care of their chick," Brown told the San Francisco Examiner in a story published Saturday.

Enter the widow Linda, who began courting Harry in her partner's old burrow shortly after his death this past winter, Brown said.

"To be completely anthropomorphizing, Linda seems conniving," Brown said. "She's got her plan. I don't think she was wanting to be a single girl for too long."

Though Harry and Linda have been nesting in recent months, molting season in late summer tends to reshuffle couples, KTVU-TV reported Sunday.

"It'll be interesting to see if Harry spends any of that time with Pepper," Brown said. "We'll have to wait and see."

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

The old fashioned words are really much funnier.

Everyone always blames the woman. Like Harry is totally innocent here.

Can't wait until next season!

Harry and Linda actually beat Pepper up. He had to be separated from them.

A very interesting twist on things, indeed. The animal world is truly proving to be a far more complex and varied world than we ever thought it was.

Sounds like Harry is the Anne Heche of the aquatic bird world.

.... Brokeback Iceberg?

Harry: Do you want some crab stuffed w/ squid?

Pepper: I wish I could quit you.

:rofl:

but yeah- the Freepers will love this. Where they panned the story before, this will be "proof" of the possibility of becoming ex-gay.

:eyes:

You know, the ones they say will turn you straight.

http://www.narth.com/ (<------ Warning! You might turn straight if you click this therapy link!)

It's a shame birds have only one playable orifice.

Everyone is rattling on about gay penguins when it is obvious that Harry belongs to the 'B' part of LGBT

Anyone know?

Most avian species are monogamous. That is to say that when they do mate, they only mate with one other. That doesn't imply that during the next mating season they will mate with the same individual. However, some birds do mate for life. Penguins are more-or-less monogamous, but some species are known to seek extra-pair copulations, that is, have affairs. The whole idea of mating for life is a bit exaggerated.

:D

Linda is the Liza Minelli of the penguin world.

:rofl:

See how long THAT lasts in school libraries before the fundies come after me with their guns a-blazin!

...

There - that was easy. :P

All the penguins from there are common glacier trash.

These finches will often become surrogate parents, should other finches (of various varieties) abandon their nests.

Indeed, is has been noted (okay, source: Wikipedia but also http://www.birdboard.com/forum/soft-bills-other/ ) that two-male pairings are more inclined to actually take over the surrogate duties.

Of course, that's all for the birds... Penguin Pride has hit its stride.

She's ditched her previous partner for the old Fig, just hours after Fig's partner died. When Fig died she went after Harry. Poor Harry didn't have a chance.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/50421527.html

Pure and simple. Penguin lust is the Devil's handiwork. God created Adam and Eve, not Penny and Poppy Penguin.

(so how many people remember Bloom County)