More news on the gay penguins. It seems sense has prevailed, sort of :-)

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1284769.html

"Penguins can stay gay

A German zoo has scrapped plans to break up homosexual penguin couples
following protests from gay rights groups.
The Bremerhaven Zoo had earlier flown in four female Humboldt penguins in an
attempt to encourage three couples discovered to be all male to reproduce.
The zoo originally defended the experiment, claiming that the birds were an
endangered species, but following protests from gay rights groups, director
Heike Kueck has said that the zoo is abandoning the plan.
She said: "Everyone can live here as they please."
Kueck said that it was neither her intention nor possible to separate the
gay couples by force and interest them in their new female companions.
She added that the penguins had shown little interest in their new female
companions but said that the programme could have been started too late in
the year.
Gay groups had earlier protested against "the organised and forced
harassment through female seductresses" in an open letter to Bremerhaven's
Mayor Joerg Schulz.""

Mind you, I think the stance of "the organised and forced harassment through
female seductresses" is probably taking things a bit far ;-)

Cheers, helen s