Gay Flamingo Couple Adopt Baby

[Karenca]

Mon May 21, 12:03 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves," said WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn.

"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."

Gay flamingos are not uncommon, she added.

"If there aren't enough females or they don't hit it off with them, they will pair off with other males," she said.


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[Karenca]

1. well, i thought it was adorable. .. eom

[LostinVA]

2. It IS adorable!

I was reading about this earlier today.

Check your PM.

[Karenca]

4. So SO adorable!!

And I did, thanks -- :pals:

[KamaAina]

3. Somebody call Rick Santorum quick!

Man on dog! Bird on bird! When will the madness end?! :sarcasm:

Repuke Stepdad and Mom are in Europe even as we speak, a scant few hundred kilometers from this avian den of iniquity. I do hope their marriage doesn't become devalued... :sarcasm:

edit: spelling

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Wow - I feel my heterosexual relationship being ruined already

If I were married, I'd be getting a divorce now.

See what you cause, you gays?

:rant:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Well god help when someone writes a sweet children's book about it...

It'll be banned just like "And Tango Makes Three" http://365gay.com/Newscon07/01/011007penguin.htm

[philosophie_en_rose]

7. Pro gay is pro life.

:)

Every egg is sacred. Every egg is good. Every egg is wanted. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. I think what freaks the fundies out is the overwhelming evidence that

gay IS natural, despite their efforts to convince people otherwise.

[philosophie_en_rose]

9. No kidding.

Or they're secretly obsessed with the possibility of being gay, so are afraid of anything that could tip them one way or the other. :shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. That's the saddest part of it...

...when people are afraid of who they are. :-(

I shall pray for them. :evilgrin: