Homo Pink Flamingos
posted by on May 21 at 11:56 AM
Gay sex occurs in nature—and so do gay parents.
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.
Carlos and Fernando waited four years longer than my boyfriend and I did before adopting. Oh, and file this detail as Not Safe Just Before Lunch (NSJBL):
The couple can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.
Uh… gee. Making milk with their throats, huh? That’s talent.
I now have Fernando by ABBA stuck in my head and therefore will have to watch Muriel's Wedding when I get home.
Weren't there some gay penguin parents in the news a little while ago?
gay parents are so 2006.
intersexed parents are 2007.
Do any gay couples chase hetero parents out of the hospital for their baby? That would be funny.
I'd do it if I didn't hate kids.
You guys, I am not kidding about this -- we have two male parakeets named Carlos and Fernando. Well, Carlos died recently, and now we have Alfred and Fernando, but still -- Carlos and Fernando were a couple for many years. I'll bet they would have adopted too. I wonder if every city in the United States has a gay male bird couple with this name.
Ha! That's awesome.
RIP Carlos
Still time to see "Against Nature", the exhibition about gay animals, at the Natural History Museum in Oslo:
http://www.nhm.uio.no/againstnature/index.html
They would be flamingos. Is there a gayer bird to be found in the world?
Uh… gee. Making milk with their throats, huh? That’s talent.
Certainly is, especially for non-mammals, unless they've been reclassified and nobody told me. Hey, if the Catholic church can declare aquatic mammals to be fish ( http://www.jimmyakin.org/2005/02/rous_rodents_of.html ) who am I to argue :-)
@8: Yeah ... "flaming" is even right in the name.
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