re: #465 Throbert McGee

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.)

So it seems they are gay birds /