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Gay penguins start family

Berlin Two homosexual penguins at a zoo in Bremerhaven, northern Germany,have hatched an egg that was abandoned and are now rearing the chick.

“Z and Vielpunkt, both males, gladly accepted their Easter present and began straight away with hatching the egg,” the zoo said. “They are behaving in the same way as one would expect a heterosexual couple to.”

Z and Vielpunkt are part of a six-strong gay community among the zoo’s collection of endangered Humboldt penguins. In 2005 four Swedish females were introduced in an unsuccessful attempt to “cure” them.

Numbers of Humboldt penguins, which are normally found on the coasts of Chile and Peru, have declined because industrial fishing methods have affected their food supply of anchovies. (AFP)