A centre at Ocean Park in Hong Kong says it's successfully breeding penguins, with 15 Gentoo and Rockhopper babies born in the past few months. [AP]
Hong Kong's Ocean Park breeding penguins
Happy Holidays from Shanghaiist!
Here's a little Christmas cheer, coming straight at you from Hangzhou's Polar Ocean Park:
Gay male penguins become adoptive parents in Harbin
In a story that will surely enrage penguin fundamentalists everywhere, two gay penguins at the Harbin Polar Land have become adoptive parents. When a female penguin hatched twin chicks on November 28, the park staff decided to give one of the little guys to a gay penguin couple who, get this, are notorious for trying to steal eggs from the straight penguins!
Gay penguins in Harbin, China steal eggs from straight penguins
Zookeepers at Polar Land in Harbin, China have observed a pair of gay penguins trying to dupe other straight penguins by placing stones in front of them before waddling away with their eggs thinking no one was watching. Eventually, the straight penguins realised what their gay friends have been up to and started to actively ostracise them from their social club. Keepers had to intervene by segregating the pair of three-year-old male penguins (how cruel!) "to avoid disrupting the rest of the community during the hatching season". The odd behaviour of the gay penguins has been explained as being a manifestation of the strong paternal instinct of male penguins that exists irrespective of sexual orientation.

