Zoo to Gay Vulture: You Will Mate (Not happy as a gay couple, other vultures picked on them...)

[WillParkinson]

Zoo to Gay Vulture: You Will Mate

Officials at a zoo in Germany are planning to separate two male vultures who have spent the last several months making a nest together so they can mate one with a female.

Gay groups are protesting a decision by the Allwetterzoo in Münster to take one of the males and mate him with a female vulture at a Czech zoo.

Allwetterzoo curtator Dirk Wewers says the zoo is in need of baby vultures.

“They weren’t happy as a gay couple anyway — the other vultures picked on them and stole their nest materials,” Wewers said.

http://advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2010/11/16/Zoo_Forces_Mating_on_Gay_Vulture/

[marmar]

1. When I saw the thread title, I thought it was some kind of parable.....but it's an actual story !!!!

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[saras]

3. Good thing he's only a zoo curator

I half expect school administrators to pick up on this.

"Hey kids, if you're being harassed because you're gay, we'll just break up your relationships and forcibly mate you. That'll fix things right up."

[RetiredTrotskyite]

4. I Wouldn't Be Surprised In the Least...

if school administrators start trying to do this. Blame the victim, never the abusers.

[struggle4progress]

5. Haven't been to a zoo for years, but IIRC this is the sort of thing zoos do

Breed captives animals and such, I mean. Sometimes it even sounds like a good idea, when the animals are in danger of extinction. Maybe Mr. Vulture could just, y'know, think of England! or whatever it is vultures are supposed to think about