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.
gay animals are just as frequent as gay people…
what i’m asking is, what has this society come to when people start asking what this society has come to when they realize that there, actually are gay people (and animals). if that’s what you were suggesting…
dogs get about as gay as you get…
if u own a guy dog then u know wat i mean…
or have ever seen him get excited over another guy dog…i almost threw up…then laughed histaricly cuse i was in the 4th grade…
What does a flamingo need with a rainbow? I think their coloring is sufficient for “gayness.” If ever an animal were to look “gayish,” a flamingo would seem to fit the bill.
I always wanted to put one of those plastic lawn flamingos roosting on a tree limb in my yard. But our current trees aren’t set up for the bird to show up through the leaves…
Though they aren’t in the yard, everyone who’s been to my house has seen my flamingo bathroom. It all stems from a time when unicycles were named for cute animals. One member of my unicycle club collected giraffes, while another collected penguins (an old brand of unicycle). They were girls, but to counter their oddness I decided to collect flamingos to go with the Miyatas I rode. They go good in a bathroom…
isn’t pink gay enough?
you know what would be sweet??
purple flamingos!! yeeeeahh!
heh, i’m not totally sure what you’re saying. are you saying that just because two guys or two girls love each other and somebody else is cool with that, it dosn’t mean that they should be allowed to be married??