https://archive.nickperkins.au/categories/just-plain-weird/Recent content in Just Plain Weird on Nick Perkins ArchiveHugoenTue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000https://archive.nickperkins.au/nicholasperkins/gay-penguin-couple-make-great-parents/Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +1000https://archive.nickperkins.au/nicholasperkins/gay-penguin-couple-make-great-parents/<p>Seems being gay doesn’t make you a bad parent after all - at least for penguins.</p> <p>First item in the “Just Plain Weird” file is a story from the UK’s <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1094977/Gay-penguins-expelled-zoo-colony-stealing-eggs-given-look-following-animal-rights-protest.html" title="Gay penguins expelled from zoo colony for stealing eggs are given their own to look after following animal rights protest | Mail Online">Daily Mail</a> detailing the exploits of two gay penguins from Polar Land in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin" title="Harbin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">Harbin, China</a>. It seems being a gay penguin couple is considered as evil as being a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/25/2428794.htm" title="Same-sex marriage won't happen: A-G">married gay couple in Australia</a>. I wonder how you determine a gay penguin from a straight penguin?</p>