Gay penguins shun Swedish mates

Filed under:Da Web, Random — posted by jbs on February 10, 2006 @ 8:47 am

Honestly, I’m not sure which is the stranger: the story or the fact that it ran on

Al Jazeera’s English language website. Since I don’t read Arabic, I can’t tell if it’s on that part of the site. But anyway, it seems that the
Gay penguins are being enticed to breed (so their species doesn’t go extinct) and there seems to be some debate about the ethics of ‘turning’ gay penguins straight.

I’m still waiting to hear back from the penguin ambassador to find out if the penguins actually self-identify as gay, or if they are just on the bi now, gay later plan (or the third option ‘I was in college’). until I hear back, I’m going to withhold judgment.



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace