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Penguins Are Not Gay, They Are Just Lonely: Study

First Posted: 10/21/10 12:47 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 07:05 PM ET

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Penguins are not gay, despite new evidence of homosexual behaviour in the wild, they are just "same sex flirting" until they find a mate, according to a new study.

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Penguins are not gay, despite new evidence of homosexual behaviour in the wild, they are just "same sex flirting" until they find a mate, according to a new study. ...
Penguins are not gay, despite new evidence of homosexual behaviour in the wild, they are just "same sex flirting" until they find a mate, according to a new study. ...
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SneathLane
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09:40 PM on 10/24/2010
Hey, those guys are only "researchers" because they haven't found the right fundamentalist congregation yet.
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Patrick Shaw
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09:56 AM on 10/24/2010
yeah...just like two straight gys left alone in a hot tub.
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colamonkey
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08:37 AM on 10/24/2010
It's a projection of the predjudices of the researchers onto the behavior of penguins.

Funny how the researchers never use the word bisexual. Because bisexuality doesn't exist?
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jmpurser
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10:54 AM on 10/22/2010
Maybe they just had a "wide stance"?

Once they realized the researchers were watching the gay penguins took it on the down low.

They're still gay, they just went looking for a host parent/artificial insemination so they could raise a kid. Gay penguin adoptions are SO restricted by the religious right wingers!
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planores
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07:19 PM on 10/21/2010
"Just Lonely"????

Hey.... isn't that the same excuse Sen. Larry Craig used?
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Sean Whelan
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12:21 AM on 10/22/2010
We're all just "lonely" when the right guy isn't around.
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mamacat
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07:04 PM on 10/21/2010
They're not gay....there just very, very happy!
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adoantarel
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05:24 PM on 10/21/2010
Once again, we're oversimplifying sexuality. If it weren't for societal pressure, there'd likely be far less "binary" sexuality.
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RBLRDR
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05:14 PM on 10/21/2010
It was just a bromance?
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jeremyfive
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04:50 PM on 10/21/2010
No gay penguins? Sure. And Liberace knew how to pleasure a woman.
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Sean Whelan
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12:23 AM on 10/22/2010
Maybe he did!
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life-of-riley
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03:07 PM on 10/21/2010
Gay Penguins? Nonsense.
They're just festive, you can tell by their dress.
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Robert Turner
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02:38 PM on 10/21/2010
Great. Another GOP talking point.
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02:37 PM on 10/21/2010
Please don't anyone tell Tennessee Tuxedo's pal Chumley the Walrus about this study; Chumley would be heartbroken to know that Tennessee has been using him all these years.
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derrickhoyle
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06:31 PM on 10/21/2010
You can't blame Tennessee when you see what Chumley's packing.
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raven119
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02:34 PM on 10/21/2010
So, now I find out that the penguin I'm living with is only hanging around because he's lonely? And I thought we really had a good thing going... I even bought a tuxedo so we'd look alike when we went to the local sushi bar. Penguins...you just can't trust them.
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life-of-riley
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03:12 PM on 10/21/2010
My darling little penguin, Matilda, froze me out of her life.
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mamacat
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07:10 PM on 10/21/2010
It comes from eating all of that fish polluted with mercury. They're not gay, they're just a little confused.
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marianproletarian
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02:21 PM on 10/21/2010
"A female pair also ‘split up’ to raise an egg with male partner." So, perhaps she is gay but did what she had to do to procreate. Maybe she didn't want to share custody. I'm sure there are humans who have done the same.
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JoeBear55
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01:50 PM on 10/21/2010
They're just trying to say that the "Gay" only happens to us humans so they can keep treating gays like second class citizens. What a load of bull pucky
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