Male penguin couple splits over widowed female

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:27 PM EDT

Article Source: CBC

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A pair of male penguins who have nested together for six years apparently broke up when a female penguin became available, say caretakers at the San Francisco Zoo.

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maddad

Harry and Pepper, a pair of Magellanic penguins, started nesting together in 2003 and incubated an egg last year.

However, zoo keepers confirmed in early July that Harry has been nesting with a female penguin, Linda, for several months, said a report in the San Francisco Examiner.

now i am confused, bi-sexual, born homosexual and changed or choice? Joking! lighten up a bit....

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8 votes

#1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:30 PM EDT

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Fred-256289

Just means guy penguins will screw anything that moves.

Anyway, doesn't change my view that gays should be allowed to marry.

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5 votes

#1.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:38 PM EDT

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JECD

Mine either! They should definately be as miserable as the rest of America!!!!!

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4 votes

#1.2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:00 PM EDT

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dsanthony

The majority of these gay penguins were forced into "gay relationships" because there were not females available for them to mate with. They were never truly gay, just "prison gay."

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6 votes

#1.3 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:00 AM EDT

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frostyone

ROFLMAO!!..They were never truly gay, just "prison gay."

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4 votes

#1.4 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:14 AM EDT

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ruthlessmoose

All this proves is that penguins like having a buddy to spend time with if there's no chicks (no pun intended) around. Just like the rest of us. :)

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2 votes

#1.5 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:52 PM EDT

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Jeffrey Merrill

now i am confused, bi-sexual, born homosexual and changed or choice? Joking! lighten up a bit....

Maybe penguins do more intellectual reasoning than we give em credit. :)

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4 votes

#2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:54 PM EDT

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Tom Daley

Maybe they just like to get laid. Geeze, we are talking about a friggin bird. Maybe there is a divorce case here if there are any lawyer sharks out there.

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4 votes

#3 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:23 PM EDT

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Just_some_guy

Never trust a penguin named Linda. They are always nest-wrecking hussies.

Harry's going to regret leaving the best thing he's ever had. Just you watch.

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9 votes

#4 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:28 PM EDT

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maddad

......LOL

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3 votes

#4.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:29 PM EDT

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JECD

Maybe they liked her outfit!

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3 votes

#5 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:59 PM EDT

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Jeffrey Merrill

Maybe they liked her outfit!

lol might be something relevant to what contributed to the one penguin's initial partnering

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3 votes

#5.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:06 PM EDT

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JECD

Birds of a Feather?

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1 vote

#5.2 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:18 PM EDT

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Pen-334769

Our neutered male cat raised an orphaned kitten, teaching the little male how to clean himself and use the litter box. He also tried real hard to mate with our un-spayed female when she went into heat before we could get her to the vet's.

Animals will be animals...if we allow them to be, and quit the stupid anthropomorphizing.

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2 votes

#6 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:17 PM EDT

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Jeffrey Merrill

We are all animals by some definition and I do find the humor refreshing...just MHO

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4 votes

#6.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:06 PM EDT

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lorena-981430

That nest-wrecker Linda! She's already left one man before to be with Fig, (now deceased... maybe she murdered him to be with Harry!) What makes Harry think she would not do the same to him?

Now poor Pepper is all depressed and lonely, but when Linda leaves Harry for someone else it will be his time to glow. That Harry is going to be sorry he fell into Linda- the Tramp- trap. It will serve him well.

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6 votes

#7 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:25 PM EDT

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colsohjunior

lorena, too funny!!!

It only takes one "Fag Hag" and a horny bisexual male, who appears to be totally gay, to bring down the house (nest)! Joke, joke, nothing but a joke! LOL! I love it!

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4 votes

#7.1 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:24 PM EDT

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katrix

Now I'm lying here with Linda on my mind .... and next to me my soon to be the one I left behind .... and lord it's killing me to see him cry ... he knows I'm lying here beside him, with Linda on my mind

Apologies to Conway

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2 votes

#7.2 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:26 PM EDT

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G. H.

Wow! A Real "Peyton Place" Soap Opera.......................with Penguins! LOL (Better check Linda's nest for a stash of poison, she sounds like a real "barracuda".) ;-O

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3 votes

#8 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:26 PM EDT

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Shub Tnediserp Remrof

Lets wait a few years and maybe well see the same thing in humans just need to apply the perfect woman. However I dont' care what your sexually is it would be an interesting human expierment.

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5 votes

#9 - Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:40 PM EDT

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alkimija

Penguins change their minds and have affairs like humans do. It's only shocking if you regard us as significantly different than the rest of the animal world, which we are not.

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2 votes

#10 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:36 AM EDT

{"commentId":8225495,"authorDomain":"trentroy-1"}

rtg-

They probably partnered up out of lonlieness in the first place, then a female shows up and he's gone like a bat out of hell, giving credence to the prison gay concept.

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#11 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:04 AM EDT

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Al 616

This is better than General Hospital! I await the next installment!

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3 votes

#12 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:39 PM EDT

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Lilithbytes

Maybe they prefer being seperated in to boys and girls, like the junior high school prom?

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1 vote

#13 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:27 PM EDT

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