Unlike humans, gay penguins with good genes can't just jerk off into a freezer for the good of the penguin species. Otherwise, gay penguins that don't breed sounds like a penguin issue to me.

Is there a shortage of penguins these days?

The African penguin population, which is native to South Africa, was in the millions centuries ago, but has dropped quickly, and continues to decline by a rate of around 2% each year. In the late 1990’s there was a slight recovery of their population, with 224,000 in existence, but oil pollution and a decline in their natural food supply caused by commercial fishing are major threats to these penguins. Because the African penguins are endangered, Buddy and Pedro's keepers think it necessary to separate them for breeding.

Who cares if they stay together. I think people are trying to make a bigger issue out of this than we need to be making. I feel meh about the whole thing.

Unlike humans, gay penguins with good genes can't just jerk off into a freezer for the good of the penguin species. Otherwise, gay penguins that don't breed sounds like a penguin issue to me.

This.

If a penguin was raised in an all-male flock and then paired with another male and given an egg to hatch together...wtf do you think is going to happen? This is a human-created situation.
Introduce some females and I'm sure they'd be fine.

Same-sex companionship among penguins is actually quite common. In 2009, Z and Vielpunkt, two male Humboldt penguins at Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo, became the proud parents of a healthy penguin chick hatched from an egg fertilized by another penguin couple.

99% of animals are retarded... they just run around, eat stuff, sleep, crap, bump into eachother, and hump things. There's no gay relationship here that is really disrupted.

Canada allows gay marriage.

And by backyard allows Penguin-that-won't-procreate-BBQ.

You know, of all the penguin "rights violations" that one can get upset over, I'm thinking there's a few more important ones that occur in a zoo.

I'm not so sure. I believe these penguins mate for life, so we're talking about two animals with a strong emotional bond being separated, which will most likely be extremely upsetting for them.

They should just introduce a couple of females and see what happens.

This thread is astonishingly anthropocentric.