Act one. The East London Aquarium staff wondered why penguins Molly and Guido didn’t produce offspring after sixteen months together. And so they did a blood test. Surprise—both Molly and Guido were male. A penguin gay couple.
Act two. In the Penguin world as in the human world, apparently heterosexual individuals can be bad parents. A straight penguin couple rejected their own egg. Enter Molly and Guido, who incubated the egg and are now the proud daddies of a as-yet-undetermined-gender baby penguin.
Says curator Siani Tinley: “They’re very happy together and made great parents. We’ve not seen any difference with heterosexual parents.”
Well duh.
Here’s the full story.
12/12/2009 at 1:34 pm Permalink
This is a great story! Have you heard of the monkeys, too?