Emotion in the Berlin Zoo: a couple of homosexual penguins could become parents

Skipper and Ping, the famous pair of penguins from the Berlin Zoo in Germany who tried to incubate a stone, could become parents.

The zoo staff presented an egg-loving couple with an egg, which they play in turn, as penguins usually do.

The egg is fruit of another couple who in recent years "does not hear 100% and that, in fact, sometimes damaged their eggs, "said goalkeeper Norbert Zahmel.

The pair of real penguins, Skipper and Ping, both 10, was an "excellent" choice as an adoptive parent, he added.

If the egg hatches, it will be the first penguin to be born at the zoo for over twenty years.

Same-bad couples between penguins are nothing new. The Toronto Zoo houses Buddy and Pedro, two South African specimens, while Antarctic Roy and Silo have been attracting the Central Park Zoo to New York for over 30 years. Homobadual behavior in animals of various species occurs both in zoos and in the wild.

A long time ago, in a survey published in the magazine Étologie, expert Stephen Dobson noted that "more than a quarter of a colony badyzed in Antarctica they were same-bad couplesmost of them trained by two men. "

During the LGBT Pride Week, the London Zoo has set up on the penguin field a sign saying "Some penguins are homobadual, drop it" as part of a campaign against homophobia.