Gay Penguins?

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Swedish lady-penguins have been brought into a German zoo to help the largely homosexual Humboldt penguin population to procreate.

None of the zoo staff suspected anything to be unusual with the population of 13 penguins, but they failed to produce any offspring.

A DNA-analysis finally revealed that 12 of the thirteen birds were actually male.

"Just by looking at them, one is not able to specify the penguins' sex," zoo director Heike Kueck told reporters.

"The first indication that those penguins might be homosexual was, that normally during mating, the female is underneath and the male on top.

"We noticed that they were always changing. Sometimes the male was on top, sometimes the female."

Due to the lack of females, the penguins had made amends and struck up relationships between males.

Four experienced lady-penguins from Swedish Kolmarden Zoo have now been flown in to stimulate the gay males into mating and breeding.

But zoo director Kueck does not have high hopes: "If those animals actually are homosexual, which is proven to happen in the animal world, the Swedish ladies will have been flown in in vain," he said.


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