A Parade of Same-Sex Penguin Parents!
Same-sex penguin pairs raising chicks aren’t new—but another expectant couple made the headlines this week, so let’s take a look at just how many there are!
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Will Gay Penguin Parents Help Save a Species?
A New Zealand animal rescue organization is using male penguin pairs in an attempt to save the endangered yellow-eyed penguin.
Same-Sex Penguin Moms “Thelma and Louise” Celebrate World Penguin Day
Yesterday was World Penguin Day, and a pair of same-sex penguin moms and their foster chick in New Zealand were among the stars.
LGBT Parenting Roundup
Let’s set aside the obvious political stories for a moment to take a look at some other LGBT parenting news, including a few family profiles, entertainment news, and penguins. Seriously, with all these stories, the penguin should be adopted as the mascot for LGB parents.
Lesbian Penguins in Israel Zoo
Same-sex penguin pairs aren’t a new phenomenon. At least four male pairs have hatched eggs together. But a zoo in Israel reported recently that a pair of female penguins are building a nest. Suki and Chupchikoni “have clearly set up house together, creating a scrape into which they collect nesting materials,” reports Haaretz. Zookeepers originally thought
Gay Penguin Dads to Form Support Group
Well, no. But the pair of male penguins that just hatched an egg together in Denmark makes the fourth such couple, by my count. At the very least, they should all get together and have brunch while the chicks swim. (Maybe they’ll even invite the gay flamingos.)
Lesbian Mom . . . Albatrosses?
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
More Gay Penguin Dads!
Gay penguin dads Guido and Molly of the East London Aquarium in South Africa have been caring for their unnamed chick since it was born five months ago, reports The Sun. The pair began to incubate the egg after an opposite-sex couple rejected it. (Molly was originally thought to be female, hence her name, but
And Gemma Makes Three: A Baby for Tango’s Real Dads
“We tried to incubate a rock and that didn’t work,” jokes Justin Richardson, one of the authors of And Tango Makes Three. The truth is, however, that he and his co-author and partner, Peter Parnell, became dads themselves back in February, as the New York Times reports today. Gemma Parnell-Richardson doesn’t have feathers like Tango,
More Same-Sex Penguin Dads!
Pretty soon the same-sex penguin parents will be able to form a support group. Z and Vielpunkt, one of three same-sex penguin pairs at Bemerhaven Zoo in Germany, have become surrogate parents to an egg rejected by an opposite-sex pair, according to The Local. “‘The two penguins, who have been together for more than five