Zoo defends bid to mate gay penguins

[emad]

Telegraph
By Kate Connolly in Berlin

The director of a German zoo has defended her campaign to mate a group of homosexual male penguins with females, arguing that it is the only way to preserve a dying breed from extinction.

Heike Kück said that she had been inundated with criticism by the gay lobby after making public her plan.

"We're simply trying to help save a threatened species," she said of the Humboldt penguin, a bird whose homosexual tendencies are well known to zoologists.

Six penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in north-west Germany provoked excitement across the world when, in the absence of any females, they were discovered wandering around in pairs, trying to mate with each other and sitting on stones as if they were eggs.

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[KitchenWitch]

1. We all know those penguins made a *lifestyle choice*

No genetics involved! *Nothing to see here!*

</sarcasm>

[Carni]

2. This is about the dumbest thing I have ever heard of

"Heike Kück said that she had been inundated with criticism by the gay lobby after making public her plan."

Is this a joke?

They (the penguins) either mate (against their personal preference) or the breed dies out--sort of a no brainer from where I am sitting.

I think the gay lobby in Germany needs to find a hobby.

[mondo joe]

3. Just ask the pengos to be donor dads and get them a nice craftsman house!

Just ask the pengos to be donor dads.

In gratitude give them a nice little craftsman house to rennovate.