Aaaw, gay ducks!

[misscam]

Is it weird that I was touched by this story about the gay ducks? Basically, they've been a pair for over three years, and they come to Malmø, Sweden every summer, where they frolic about and aren't interested in the females. They defend each other if needed, and their kind of duck mate for life, so they'll stick together until one dies. Aaaw.

(The article also makes a point of mentioning homosexuality occurs among other species of birds as well, and thus isn't "against nature" as some so loudly like to claim. Nature's full of it, science has documented. So shut it.)

Even made icons for them, because they are adorable.

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[dune-drd.livejournal.com]

Awww, they look... happy ;)

Know of a pair of gay penguins and a pair of gay flamingos, although those are a little more proactive and steal eggs from other nests so they can raise them as their own *g*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Naughty things!

Article actually also mentioned two male swans that took over and egg and hatched it and fed the little kid after the rest of the colony died out. Aaaw.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

This is the most random thing on my flist all day XD

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:P They're cute and I wanted to share, so hah.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

and their kind of suck mate for life

Ah, and you were doing so well up till then ;) :P

Tehy teh kyoot!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

That typo didn't happen. Nope.

[yattara.livejournal.com]

Sure it didn't...

*wonders if other ducks enjoy this kind of drake-porn.*

[silvery-lass.livejournal.com]

I heard about that on the news today. And I also read an article about gay penguins once, seems nature is full of queers.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Even happens in moose, apparently.

[aervir.livejournal.com]

I think the Hamburg zoo has got a couple of gay penguins. And there's a pair of lesbian swans at a Boston pond, IIRC.

May I steal the duck icons for possible future use?

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Of course. The ducks are love and long to be shared.

[falena]

Aaaaawww!

[azarias.livejournal.com]

So cute, yet we must keep in mind that even pure gay duck love can go horribly, horribly wrong (http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/research/story/0,9865,1432991,00.html).

[yattara.livejournal.com]

o.O

That is...weird...

[sweill.livejournal.com]

From the files of "What I'm Not Sure I Wanted to Know"

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA AWESOME.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

You/Me OTP

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

Hee yay.

[sweill.livejournal.com]

That is strangely cute and oddly moving.

[shippygrl.livejournal.com]

I saw them on a documentary on Trio~a guy did a "In Search of Gay Animals", in order to prove that homosexuality does, in fact, occur in nature, and therefore cannot be "against nature".

There were also some monkeys, dogs, and swans.

[immoralilly.livejournal.com]

Cute!
I heard about a group of gay flamingoes a couple of years ago, though it wasn't true love so much as a crazy orgy. So possibly not relevant.

[ligaras.livejournal.com]

Awwww, how adorable is that!
And the black swans adopting a goose egg O_o
-and now I really want Melkesjokolade...

Go Dagbladet :P

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I have some downstairs, along with Kvikklunsj. Yay, påskegodt!

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

A grand encyclopedia to all the various wild and woolly homosexuality (and less savory sexual practices) among mammals, birds and reptiles can be found in Bruce Bagemihl's wondrous Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. I'm just sayin'. ;-)

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

Aw. That's so cute.

[krazykat.livejournal.com]

There are also a population of gay rams, just to add another sort of animal.

I think it's cute.

[siraj.livejournal.com]

(The article also makes a point of mentioning homosexuality occurs among other species of birds as well, and thus isn't "against nature" as some so loudly like to claim. Nature's full of it, science has documented. So shut it.)


Amusingly, this doesn't stop my religious friends from claiming that it's all in the name of dominance of the group. Myself? *waves a huge "Yay for gay duckies" banner*

[evilstorm.livejournal.com]

There are gay everythings. There was a metaquotes thread on this once--see, that's the benefit of bookmarking everything interesting. XD