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Gay penguins found in aquariums (Japan Times, 12/26/04)

A group of researchers said it has found a number of same-sex pairs of penguins at aquariums and zoos around Japan.

The group, led by Keisuke Ueda, a professor of behavioral ecology at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, attributed the phenomenon to the difficulty of finding partners of the opposite sex because facilities only have an average of 20 birds, with uneven numbers of males and females.

The same thing happens if you put them in a prison, boys' boarding school, or the British Navy.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 25, 2004 9:27 PM