Tag: zoo

There's another penguin rainbow family in the world! A gay penguin couple stole a baby from ‘bad parents’ at a Denmark zoo. Elias and Emil, as we’re calling them, are the stars of a dramatic video filmed yesterday at Odense Zoo. The same-sex penguin couple felt like a baby was being ignored by its straight penguin parents. Gay penguin ‘steal’ baby from straight parents at Denmark zoo Elias and Emil decided to ‘steal’ the newborn chick, and protect it from its negligent mother and...

This proves rainbow families come in all shapes and sizes (and species) Two male griffon vultures have adopted an egg and are now raising a chick together in a Amsterdam zoo. Artis Zoo said keepers had found an abandoned egg on the vulture aviary initially put it in an incubator and later decided to place it in a nest two male birds had build together. This is the first time a same-sex pair have hatched an egg at the Dutch capital’s zoo. The...

Two penguins are celebrating their 10th year of partnership, as a gay couple. Dotty and Zee are two Humboldt penguins that reside at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany. Scientists have found that more than 450 species of animals display gay behaviour. They have been together for over a decade now and are completely inseparable. At first, the couple were left to their own devices as the zoo did not yet realise both Dotty and Zee were male penguins. However, after a few years of dedicated...

After falling in love, this couple of gay penguins was moved for living with other gay penguins in sanctuary of Hamburg. Stan and Olli are now just regular penguin gay couple. A pair of two male king penguins, decided to destroy all plans of zookeepers for them to breed with the female penguins at Berlin zoo. This couple was brought to Berlin under the European Conservation Programme (EEP) with the main aim - to breed more baby king penguins. But as it turned out they didn’t...