Gay, Egg Stealing Penguins Best Parents Of Them All

The real affront is that we’re humanizing these animals. They’re animals. They’re ANIMALS. Stop interfering.

PC correct title. How about “Baby abducting gay penguins claim normal penguins offspring”…

Sounds like a dead end to me!

‘We decided to give them two eggs from another couple whose hatching ability had been poor and they’ve turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo,’ said one of the keepers.

Actually, Stinker, it’s more like a gay couple rescuing a kid from bad parents and giving him love and affection that his biological parents couldn’t give. If you want to be true to the story.

Of course they’re better parents, for starters their kids are not accidents.

What amazes me is that they substituted rocks for the eggs they were trying to abduct. This seems like behavior that is neither instinctive nor learned.

Please don’t tell me the devil made them do it.

What amazes me is that they substituted rocks for the eggs they were trying to abduct. This seems like behavior that is neither instinctive nor learned.

It’s no different than when a mother’s chick dies early on and she attempts to steal the chick of another.

#15, hmm, i see your point.

# 15 Gary, the dangerous infidel said, “The difference I see is that in your example, it’s the simple, direct replacement of something lost. With the penguins, there is an attempted deception with something that’s somewhat similar, but certainly not identical.”

Kinda like the Cuculidae being brood parasites.

From the blurb on the book “Biological Exuberance” at amazon.com.

Bruce Bagemihl writes that Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity was a “labor of love.” And indeed it must have been, since most scientists have thus far studiously avoided the topic of widespread homosexual behavior in the animal kingdom–sometimes in the face of undeniable evidence. Bagemihl begins with an overview of same-sex activity in animals, carefully defining courtship patterns, affectionate behaviors, sexual techniques, mating and pair-bonding, and same-sex parenting. He firmly dispels the prevailing notion that homosexuality is uniquely human and only occurs in “unnatural” circumstances. As far as the nature-versus-nurture argument–it’s obviously both, he concludes. An overview of biologists’ discomfort with their own observations of animal homosexuality over 200 years would be truly hilarious if it didn’t reflect a tendency of humans (and only humans) to respond with aggression and hostility to same-sex behavior in our own species. In fact, Bagemihl reports, scientists have sometimes been afraid to report their observations for fear of recrimination from a hidebound (and homophobic) academia. Scientists’ use of anthropomorphizing vocabulary such as insulting, unfortunate, and inappropriate to describe same-sex matings shows a decided lack of objectivity on the part of naturalists.

Great! Let’s pass a law to give gay people the right to steal children.

#8 Because it was the Penguin’s Social Services that deemed the parents unfit. In the 30’s thru the 70’s we gave animals human features in cartoons to amuse ourselves. Now, those that grew up watching those cartoons are giving humans animal features because it’s OK for them. How much confusion in this world.

#10 Yeap, they were planned kidnappings.

Way to go Pedro

You might have something there.

#23 I think you’re the one hyperventilating here. Can’t stand the comparison, I see.

#27 Hate to say it but…good one!

#29

Agreed, there’s always a couple of trolls (and a self hating latino) that spend the whole time throwing stones.

Christians could use homosexuality to defy Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by simply doing this question: If gay animals don’t have offspring how come there’s always a fixed percentage of occurence in the natural world?

#17 – Kemo Sabe

>>Gay??? … How do penguins butt-f**k?

Haw haw haw! Wait until you tell that one to the kids in the tree fort! That’s a real keen joke!!

#31 I suspect a penguin may have sneaked in during the night and replaced your brain with a rock.

The morality of baby snatching penguins is not the issue here. You cant reasonably apply human values to penguins. Besides, the same evil baby snatchers will often adopt orphan chicks and care for abandoned eggs (I saw it on TV – it must be true). The issue is that in nature, same sex parents are not uncommon and do a perfectly adequate job of it. I don’t see why humans are any different in that regard.

There is no good or evil in nature. These are subjective human constructs that have been hijacked by organized religion for their own (often nefarious) purposes.

#38 – SpEd

>>I guess it would be different if they were
>>stealing the eggs and trying to stick them up
>>each others asses.

Haw haw haw! Wait until you tell that one to the kids in the tree fort! That’s a real keen joke!!

#37 Pedro

I said nothing about logic, although I believe my argument logical. I’m talking about human values and morality not being applicable to a penguins behavior.

An example of an illogical argument designed to suit ones agenda would be equating ‘gayness’ in penguins to a disease, even though there is no precedent or evidence of any biological problems in the animals.

Pedro, I suspect that if you were a judge in the animal kingdom, you’d quickly get a reputation as the hangin’ judge! You seem to be pretty harsh when assessing the guilt of those critters for their moral shortcomings.

Your Honor, I ask for leniency as this is my clients’ first offense. They’ve already confessed to stealing eggs. Please be merciful.

#41 Pedro

For god’s sake man, they are animals. They have no sense of good or bad and act on instinct alone. They fact that penguins steal each others eggs, wallets or Ford Pintos is irrelevant. Only an idiot would judge them for that.

Simple rules that humans should use too. Heck, get rid of that stupid morality as well. Kidnapping is good when you have no morals.

This is what happens with kids hi on Merry Melodies.

I don’t quite understand the point of the article. Many species practice what for humans would be murder, rape, theft, incest, etc. Are these actions now to be good examples for humans because they are natural? Are we to believe homosexual people make the best parents because a pair of homosexual penguins were judged by some people to be superior?

#46 radad

A good point. I think the article only serves, as I originally pointed out, that same sex parenting is not ‘unnatural’, as homophobes and narrow minded god botherers often insist it is.

As same sex parenting causes no harm to others and is in all likelihood not inferior to straight couple parenting, I fail to see the controversy as anything else than uninformed bigotry.

#49 stinker

I think its a good example of gay parenting being perfectly natural. There are many other examples of this from different animal species. I dont see why humans are all that different in this regard.

As for normal, desirable, better etc, I agree that its a poor example.

Is it just me or is there no link in the story?

It’s good to have a mix of Financial crisis posts intermingled with Gay suggestive posts. It’s a form of therapy.

The right wingnutts can bond with the bigots (arguably redundancy) to channel their despair at gays – in this case, “gay penguins”. Oh boy, this is good.

Dang, looks like someone here really, really hopes he can switch back… good luck there, pal.