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Gay whales and trans fish: celebrating queerness in the ocean
You may have heard of Roy and Silo, a pair of male penguins at New York’s Central Park Zoo who paired up for many years and even raised a chick together. But those queer penguins are just the tip of the iceberg!
Same-sex partnerships contain been documented among seabirds. In one studied community of albatrosses in Hawaiʻi, nearly a third of bonded pairs were female-female. Like male-female pairings, these birds took turns incubating a single egg while the other went off in search of food.
At the Seattle Aquarium, female tufted puffins Gil and Gertie have been bonded for over five years. During mating season, Gil and Gertie engage in billing, a flirtatious transfer when puffins tap on each other’s bills, and stacking, a breeding deed where they stack several small fish in their bills. They also amass materials to build a nest together and disburse a lot of occasion with one another.
While tufted puffins often return to the same mate, puffin “couples” like Gil and Gertie could change in the future due to new social dynamics. Just like humans, animal relationships can change.
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Gay penguin Sphen dies in Australian aquarium
An Australian penguin famous for raising chicks as part of an unlikely same-sex couple has died, the Sydney Sealife Aquarium announced on Thursday.
"Staff at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium are heartbroken to divide the news that Sphen, one-half of the world's most famous and loved gentoo penguin couples, has sadly passed away," the aquarium said in a statement.
Sea Life Aquarium said Sphen, who was the older loved one in the "same-sex" penguin pair, died just nervous of turning 12, considered a long life in captivity.
"Sphen and Magic mutual a bond unlike most other penguin couples — they could even be found together outside of the breeding season, which is unique for gentoo penguins," the aquarium said.
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Male gentoo penguins Sphen and Magic built a nest of pebbles together in 2018, catching the attention of zookeepers and then the world.
They eventually hatched chicks, Sphengic in 2018 and Clancy two years later, after being given live eggs from other penguin couples to incubate.
Sphen and Magic were adopted as queer icons in Australia and abroad, inspiring a float in the Sydney Mardi Gras parad