Formerly gay penguin finds a wife

[MooCowSteph]

I found this amusing, but sad at the same time. This is not a story about the meaning of family, as the National Library Association wants us to think.

Silo Rains on the Penguin Pride Parade
by Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.

*One of America’s A-list gay couples has broken up. *

No, it’s not Rosie and Kelli. It’s Roy and Silo. Roy and Silo are male penguins. Chinstrap penguins to be exact.

About six years ago, Roy and Silo set up housekeeping together in New York’s Central Park Zoo. They courted and attempted to mate and by all accounts were fairly inseparable. They even adopted a child together. Roy and Silo hatched little Tango a couple of years ago and raised her as their own.

However, recently Silo has become perhaps the world’s first documented ex-gay penguin. He has moved out of his nest with Roy and taken up with Scrappy, a hot little bird who recently moved in from Sea World Zoo in San Diego. I guess he was wishing for a California girl.

For those who have pointed to Roy and Silo as models for us all, these developments must be disappointing. Some gay activists might actually be angry.

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[canne]

Oh geez, I don’t think I’ll be adding the story of Roy and

Silo to my childs library anytime soon at least the way its written. Roy was simply a confused penguin who figured it out, probabily has something to do with being in a zoo unless this behavior is found it the wild as well. My dog used to be in ‘love’ with a patio cushion does that make him gay?

I agree amusing but sad too. I think I’ll stick to some of my favorites when it comes to stories about familis: Love you forever, On Mothers Lap, owl babies, What baby wants…

 

[MooCowSteph]

canne:

My dog used to be in ‘love’ with a patio cushion does that make him gay?

Perhaps we’ll have to extend our view of acceptable sexual behavior to including the attachment to inanimate objects.

 

[Della]

One of our male kittens was trying to mate with the other males cats in our household. His efforts were either tolerated, as in “He’s just a baby, so one must make allowances” or rebuffed as in “What the heck do you think you’re doing?” Once we got him fixed he left the other cats alone. He wanted to mate, poor thing and decided any port in a storm would do. It was pretty funny.

And another of our male kittens was given to us before he was fully weaned and so wanted to be mothered. One of the male cats obliged him, letting him “suckle” on his tummy fur and washing him like he was his baby. That was funny too. Now that the kitten is an adult he still likes to cozy up to the other cat but he gets soundly cuffed if he tries to nurse. I guess the older cat understood the little one needed some attention, but now that he is grown up he no longer tolerates the nursing behavior.

I think nature, being devoid of morals as we humans understand it, is filled with such examples of males and females acting outside their sex’s roles, but in the end, they all find a way to perpetuate their species as they were created to do, which is all that matters to them.