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coffee_addict
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Message 1 of 22 (184094)
02-09-2005 12:37 PM


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Keepers at the zoo ordered DNA tests to be carried out on the penguins after they had been mating for years without producing any chicks.
It was only then they realised that six of the birds were living in homosexual partnerships.
You can read the rest at the link provided.
Just thought this was interesting enough to link people to.

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Message 5 of 22 (184132)
02-09-2005 3:01 PM


When I first heard the "unnatural" argument, I bursted out laughing for a long time. It immediately occurred to me that these so-called Christians were using animal behavior as a guidance for human morality.

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Message 8 of 22 (184405)
02-10-2005 11:20 AM
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02-10-2005 6:11 AM


Thor writes:
Any thoughts?
Sure. Would you like to make a bet? I bet 5 bucks that, despite all the evidence, there are still those on here who believe that homosexuality is not "natural," whatever that means. In fact, if another homosexuality thread turns up again, we will see almost the exact words "it's wrong because it is not natural..."

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Message 15 of 22 (195017)
03-28-2005 5:59 PM


Haha. More gay penguins!
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/...ntwork/cns/2002-06-10/591.asp
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Wendell and Cass, two penguins at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, Brooklyn, live in a soap opera world of seduction and intrigue. Among the 22 male and 10 female African black-footed penguins in the aquarium's exhibit, tales of love, lust and betrayal are the norm. These birds mate for life. But given the disproportionate male-female ratio at the aquarium, some of the females flirt profusely and dump their partners for single males with better nests.
Wendell and Cass, however, take no part in these cunning schemes. They have been completely devoted to each other for the last eight years. In fact, neither one of them has ever been with anyone else, says their keeper, Stephanie Mitchell.
But the partnership of Wendell and Cass adds drama in another way. They're both male. That is to say, they're gay penguins.
This is not unusual. "There are a lot of animals that have same-sex relations, it's just that people don't know about it," Mitchell said. "I mean, Joe Schmoe on the street is not someone who's read all sorts of biology books."
You can read the rest of the article at the link.

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