By Jason Charles on 1/23/2019 (5 years 229 days ago)
This week, crack reporters at the New York Times reported gay penguins are better parents than negligent ones,“The colony’s only gay penguins, …Sphen and Magic looked like they would make great, diligent, careful egg-warming parents. Curious, the aquarium managers gave the two males a dummy egg. They took to it. And so then, when a particularly negligent heterosexual penguin couplelooked to be leaving an egg exposed (females lay two, but usually only one survives), the aquarium workers figured they would give it to Sphen and Magic.In October, that egg hatched. Now the chick of a gay penguin union is waddling around an ice enclosure by the touristy docks in Sydney.”…“The penguin keepers said they do not think much about the politics... But they do see that he is inspiring visitors.“Penguins...