See? It Doesn’t Work!
Heard about those “gay penguins” at the zoo in Germany? The zoo keepers brought in some female penquins to try and “straighten them out.” Guess what. It didn’t take.
Attempts by a Germany zoo to “convert its gay penguins to heterosexuality have failed the zoo’s director said Friday.
On Tuesday 365Gay.com reported that the Bremerhaven Zoo had imported four female penguins from Sweden which it hoped would split up its three gay penguin couples and turn the birds “straight”.
But the six gay penguins were not interested in dallying with the other sex, remaining faithful to their same-sex partners.
“The relationships were apparently too strong,” said zoo Director Heike Kueck.
The gay males were separated from their mates and one by one the females were introduced. The males pined for their mates until they were reunited.
Sounds like the animal-kingdom version of “You just haven’t met the right girl yet.” When will people learn? Sometimes “the right girl” is another guy, and the “right guy” is another girl.
February 12th, 2005 at 2:46 pm
hahahahaha…perfect.
February 13th, 2005 at 10:33 pm
Thanks for the update. I’d heard about the plans to introduce the females, and had my doubts.
I’m afraid the general public isn’t aware that homosexuality is pretty common in the animal kingdom, too. Throw that into the nature versus nurture argument, no?