Toronto's 'gay' penguins split as one mates with female |
Buddy (centre) takes an interest in Pedro (right), snubbing a female (left) |
Toronto's so-called gay penguins, Buddy and Pedro, have officially split, say zoo keepers, after one of them found a female mate. |
They were separated last month by zoo officials who said they needed to reproduce because African penguins are an endangered species. |
Buddy has now paired with a female, but Pedro has yet to get lucky, though it is not said to be for lack of trying. |
Buddy and Pedro shared a nest for about one year after arriving at the zoo. |
Videos of the pair became hugely popular on the internet. |
Tom Mason, Toronto Zoo's curator of birds and invertebrates, told a news conference on Monday that less than three days after Buddy and Pedro's "bromance" was ended, the former successfully paired with a female, Farai, on 19 November. |
Pedro has been chasing another female, Thandiwey, for several weeks, although she has so far shown little interest. |
Mr Mason said Buddy and Pedro's relationship had been social, not sexual, and that both would probably end up settling with females. |
Buddy, 21, had a female partner for a decade and produced chicks. |
But Pedro, 10, has yet to produce any offspring. |
Romans 1:
22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
