Silo and Roy, the famous gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo, have split up after Silo decided to take up with a female penguin named Scrappy, a new penguin in the enclosure. Heartbreakingly, Roy is described as spending his time “staring at the wall.”
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The exact same thing happened in San Francisco too.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/12/Same-sex-penguin-couple-split/UPI-56931247417354/
These are sad days for gay penguin couples…
What the heck is going on with the gay penguins?
What does one say to that? Hooray for the girls or I’m sorry for the boy? Love is totally unpredictable!