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Suasoria · Chanel

Happy news: wedding bells for gay penguins!

Hermes

Suasoria wrote:

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/733873/gay-penguins-celebrate-fatherhood-wedding
Gay penguins celebrate fatherhood, wedding
08:00 AEST Wed Jan 28 2009
1 day 12 hours 39 minutes ago
By ninemsn staff

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Two gay penguins have been given a wedding ceremony as a reward for their exceptional parenting skills.
The inseparable couple at China's Polarland Zoo were originally shunned for stealing chick eggs from fellow "heterosexual" penguins but have proved their nurturing skills with abandoned eggs, The Sun has reported.
"We decided to give them two eggs from another couple whose hatching ability had been poor and theyve turned out to be the best parents in the whole zoo," a keeper from the Harbin zoo was quoted as saying.
"They have been a good couple and deserved their reward."
Their reward was a lavish wedding ceremony complete with a soundtrack of the 'Wedding March' and a banquet of spring fish.
One was dressed in a tie while the other sported a red jacket.
The happy couple is not the first to defy penguins' tradition of lifelong "straight" partnerships.
A pair of chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo made headlines in 2004 for their "ecstatic behavior" including entwining their necks, singing to each other and having sex.
Silo and Roy were devoted to each other for six years, even trying to incubate a rock by sitting on it.
When zookeepers gave them a real egg to look after they successfully raised a female chick, Tango.

funny stuff! I'm sure they had no clue what was going on, but were happy to have the fish!

penguininaboat · BCBG

That's adorable. Reminded me of this news article http://wcco.com/watercooler/penguin.knighted.norway.2.796204.html

King Penguin Knighted

LONDON (AP)

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A King Penguin like this one has been knighted by British Maj. Gen. Euan Loudon on behalf of Norway's King Harald V. Loudon on Aug. 15, 2008. AP

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Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted.

Not bad for a 3-foot tall penguin - actually, three of them.

A resident of Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland, the original Nils Olav was made an honorary member of the King's Guard in 1972 after being picked out as the guard's mascot by lieutenant Nils Egelien. The guards adopted him because they often toured the zoo during their visits to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, an annual military music festival, according to zoo spokeswoman Maxine Finlay.

The king penguin was named after Egelien and Norway's then-King Olav V. When the penguin died - Finlay said no one at the zoo knew exactly when - he was replaced by a second penguin, who inherited Nils Olav's name and rank.

The current Nils Olav, the third penguin to serve as the guards' mascot, was promoted from honorable regimental sergeant major to honorary colonel-in-chief in 2005, Finlay said.

The knighthood ceremony began Friday morning with speeches and a fanfare before Nils arrived, under escort with the King's Guard Color Detachment. Nils then reviewed the troops lined up outside the penguin enclosure at the zoo, waddling down the row of uniformed soldiers, occasionally stopping to crane his neck and peer inquisitively at their crisp uniforms before being guided forward by his handler.

Nils was then knighted by British Maj. Gen. Euan Loudon on behalf of Norway's King Harald V. Loudon dropped the king's sword on both sides of Nils's black-and-white frame, and the penguin's colonel-in-chief badge, tied to his flipper, was swapped for one symbolizing his knighthood.

"He'll be a "sir" now," Finlay said.

Kelly · Hermes

That is adorable! It's cute that they've been trying to raise a chick by themselves

clothes_horse · Dooney & Bourke

awww! that is so cute, i couldn't help but laugh! the image of those two trying to incubate a rock is so sweet! thanks for posting this

stardust · Kenneth Cole

Aww seriously- trying to incubate a rock - that got me too- so sweet!