Gay Penguins?

[OldGreyEagle 5]

What can be cuter than dancing penguins happy and gay, well not gay gay, just merry gay

[ElyriaLeader 11]

Boy...everyone makin' such a big deal about how happy the peguins were that they finally got some eggs of their own...my gorshk!

[eisely 13]

Maybe Harry and Pepper really weren't born gay after all. Or perhaps this is just another example of feminine wiles at work? Maybe it is their true nature to be gay and this horrible female should have left them alone?

 

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SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (UPI) -- Linda the penguin has split up two male penguins who lived as a nesting couple for six years at the San Francisco Zoo, caretakers said.

 

Male penguins Harry and Pepper had been so content together they were allowed to incubate and hatch an egg laid by another Magellanic penguin last year, zookeeper Anthony Brown said.

 

"Of all of the parents that year, they were the best. They took very good care of their chick," Brown told the San Francisco Examiner in a story published Saturday.

 

Enter the widow Linda, who began courting Harry in her partner's old burrow shortly after his death this past winter, Brown said.

 

"To be completely anthropomorphizing, Linda seems conniving," Brown said. "She's got her plan. I don't think she was wanting to be a single girl for too long."

 

Though Harry and Linda have been nesting in recent months, molting season in late summer tends to reshuffle couples, KTVU-TV reported Sunday.

 

"It'll be interesting to see if Harry spends any of that time with Pepper," Brown said. "We'll have to wait and see."