TORONTO – Pedro and Buddy – two gay penguins – were tossed out of the Toronto Zoo, let loose on the streets.
Zoologists at the Toronto Zoo first tried to separate the “gay” penguin couple at the Toronto Zoo but that caused a commotion both among zoologists and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
But in the middle of the night, several anti-gay-penguin fanatics (AGPeFs) snuck into the penguin exhibit – snagged Pedro and Buddy and threw them – separately – onto the street.
Luckily, Pedro and Buddy found each other behind an Italian restaurant and now… they are looking for a new home, a place that doesn’t discriminate against gays.
Buddy and Pedro have not only been inseparable, but started mating several years ago. Bred in captivity, 10-year-old Pedro and Buddy, 20, came to Toronto from zoos in the U.S. as part of a popular African penguin exhibit which opened at the zoo in May, and formed a connection as members of a “bachelor flock“.
“It’s a complicated issue, but they seem to be in a loving and committed relationship,” said Sal Torizinni, chair of the Toronto zoo board.
Zoo officials, who watched the two penguins mate, immediately tried to separate the birds from each other and pair them with females for breeding, as African penguins are an endangered species.
But Pedro and Buddy don’t like girls.
Same-sex companionship among penguins is actually quite common. In 2009, Z and Vielpunkt, two male Humboldt penguins at Germany’s Bremerhaven Zoo, became proud parents of a healthy penguin chick hatched from an egg fertilized by another penguin couple. Another such pair at China’s Polarland Zoo was even given a wedding celebration.
And, as LiveScience reports, homosexuality has been documented in more than 450 species of vertebrates, “signaling that sexual preference is biologically determined in animals.”
Watch a video about Pedro and Buddy. This was taken right before they were tossed out on the streets:
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I don't understand this… Can the people of Toronto do something for these poor penguins? All they are doing wrong is loving each other! Here I was thinking Toronto was a very progressive city.
Cuz gay penguins dont contribute to thier cause
Wow even the penguins are gooing Gay…………what a shame…………..
thats f*cking stupid there so full of themselvies that they dont even like guy penguins dear chirt they animals give them a break you loser
ONLY IN DUMB AMERICA
Since when is Toronto in America?????
this cant b real! penguins kicked out of a zoo for being gay? WTF. they are penguins so who the hwell cares. there is seriously a anti gay penguin group. what a bunch of losers
As long as their happy why not, we live for happiness not sadness…god bless :*
GUYS! THIS STUFF IS FAKE! THEIR LOGO IS A PICTURE OF BATBOY FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!
Not sure what is funnier.. the article itself or the morons who've left comments thinking that this is all real!