re: #385 Afrocity

All of this talk of homosexuals lead me to read up on it:

For example, male penguin couples have been documented to mate for life, build nests together, and to use a stone as a surrogate egg in nesting and brooding. In a well-publicized story from 2004, the Central Park Zoo in the United States replaced one male couple’s stone with a fertile egg, which the couple then raised as their own offspring.

Incidentally, the two male chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus) in THAT particular case didn’t mate for life, although they stuck together for six consecutive mating seasons. But they “broke up” a year or two after hatching the foster egg, and one of them paired with a female in a subsequent mating season. (That heterosexual pairing only lasted one season, though, and as far as I’ve been able to find on the Web, both males have remained bachelors in recent years — possibly because they’re now quite elderly by the standards of their species.)