Hot on the feathered heels of last week’s news about another pair of gay penguin dads comes the story of two female albatrosses in New Zealand who are incubating an egg together (Queerty, via GayNZ.com). They are not the first Sapphic avians who have tried to start a family, however; two of the famed swans in Boston’s Public Garden are a female pair who attempted to incubate an egg a few years back.
I am very happy we continue to find evidence that same-sex parenting is not, as the ultra-right says, unnatural. I just hope all of this doesn’t mean same-sex parenting is for the birds. I prefer to think of it as an egg-cellent adventure.
(Photo credit: Mila Zinkova. Distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2. Not the actual albatrosses described above.)
I’m sure the birdies have a MUCH easier time arranging to incubate their partners eggs than some of us did! ;-)
LOL!
“Sapphic avians”! That will put a pep in my step for the rest of the morning.
Must add: I do hope “egg-cellent” elicited some kind of loving wallop of the baseball hat (purely symbolic) from Helen.
Yep. The yolk’s on me.
Well, La Cage Aux Folles had already been used. ;)