This & That, Ceci et Cela

Bremerhaven Zoo introduced the female penguins to try and establish more breeding pairs in its penguin pens. The zoo has far too many male penguins, while Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden has an oversupply of females.

At Bremerhaven, the birds, which find new mates every year, form all-male pairs and adopt pebbles as if they were eggs. Last year, officials said the females had arrived too late for pairing. And this year, the birds arrived in time, but were too shy. “The Swedes are rather stand-offish,” said zoo chief executive Heike Kueck.

Four local females were quickly snapped up but the rest of the 22 penguins ignored the newcomers and formed broody male couples. Last year, homosexual militants bombarded the zoo with e-mails and protest letters, claiming it was interfering in the penguins’ freedom of sexual orientation” (Ananova).

Shy Swedes fail to seduce gay penguins? What in the world is going on; even penguin chicks ain’t getting any? That progresses the issue to truly universal proportions. And human females lacking good mates thought they were the only species that had it bad.