Gay penguins marry

penguin marriage January 30th, 2009

They stole eggs, then they won the best parenting award, now China’s favourite gay penguin couple have decided to formalise their love in a penguin wedding.

An alternative - and perhaps cynical - view is that zookeepers at the penguin’s enclosure are desperately trying to whip up more publicity for the zoo by forcing human clothes onto the animals and putting them through a bizarre wedding ceremony.

Despite both penguins’ natural black-tie apparal, one of the penguins was made to wear a red bow tie for the ceremony, while the other was dressed in a red blouse. The pair then waddled onto a ‘wedding room’ - to the tune of the Wedding March of course - and ate fish.

According to their keepers at the zoo, the penguin’s wedding was ‘a reward’ for their good parenting skills.

[via The Sun]

 comments

  • righty-o

    Erin ∼ January 31st, 2009 7:25 am
  • They’re penguins! What do they care about human customs? It’s stupid when humans do it, it’s even stupider when humans make penguins do it. >.>

    Kathy ∼ February 1st, 2009 10:10 am
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