gay humboldts :)

Meggie · Post by **Meggie** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:17 pm

BERLIN (AFP) - Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005, the zoo said.

The problem was that the female Humboldt penguins have proven too shy in their advances, the director of the zoo in the northern port city of Bremerhaven said.

"The Swedes will not make the first move," Heike Kueck said.

The females were flown in last year in a bid to bring the males to mate and help save the Humboldt species from extinction.

Kueck said last year she was optimistic the initiative would be successful because zoo keepers had noticed that at one point a female penguin had managed to cause a couple of males to "separate".

The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves.

The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.

In a statement posted on its Internet website, the zoo on Wednesday sought to defend itself from fresh criticism.

"We will be delighted if the penguins form even one heterosexual couple and manage to produce first an egg, and then a little one," it said.

"But of course we accept the male couples that have formed and we are not trying to enforce heterosexuality, as we were accused of doing last year."

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:19 pm

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:29 pm

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:19 pm

I cant believe Trini hasn't picked up on this one

De Plano · Post by **De Plano** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:25 pm

I do think all his birds ARE male

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:44 pm

Actually only 2 of the 5 are male.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:46 pm

So Humby...did you pick your name after the penguin, or the squid?

sito · Post by **sito** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:52 pm

The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups.

downhill · Post by **downhill** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:21 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:So Humby...did you pick your name after the penguin, or the squid?

Knowing the area he now resides, I think one can come to the conclusion that he picked it for the national forest that harvests more green than redwood lumber...

Beautiful country, I might add.

BaJaBoy · Post by **BaJaBoy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:36 am

sito wrote:

Sito empty out some PM's so mine can go through will ya

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 11:54 am

downhill wrote:Knowing the area he now resides, I think one can come to the conclusion that he picked it for the national forest that harvests more green than redwood lumber...

Beautiful country, I might add.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:00 pm

downhill wrote:Knowing the area he now resides, I think one can come to the conclusion that he picked it for the national forest that harvests more green than redwood lumber...

Beautiful country, I might add.

DHD,
Humby only lives there to be close to Trini's mom, (she's actually a he...

) and the gay penguins, of course!

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 3:10 pm

downhill wrote:Knowing the area he now resides, I think one can come to the conclusion that he picked it for the national forest that harvests more green than redwood lumber...

Beautiful country, I might add.

That it is! Gods playground

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:56 pm

So Trinis mom has been a cover-up all this time!?? Dayyum