Destabilizing Heteronormativity

Click here to read about Silo and Roy, gay penguins. They were together for six years before they broke up. One of them paired up with a female.


These two male storks, living in a Dutch zoo, are raising a chick together. The zookeepers don't know how they came across their egg, but somehow they did, and now they're parents! Click here for the story and a video.


About 20 percent of all black swan couples are male/male according to this study:



Carlos and Fernando just celebrated their fifth anniversary (see here):


A museum in Oslo has gained some attention for their exhibit, Against Nature?, featuring homosexual behavior among animals. Check it out.

1 comments:

  Anonymous

January 15, 2008 at 4:03 PM

Isn't it strange that we describe animal "relationships" using the same vocabulary we use for humans? "they broke up", "their fifth anniversary".... reminds me of the post about chickens a few days ago.