You can't spell "flamingo" without "flaming" - Page 5

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 01:53 PM

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Gay flamingos adopt chick

Two gay flamingos have become proud foster parents after taking an abandoned chick under their wings.

Pink pair Carlos and Fernando were so desperate to have a family they started stealing eggs at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

The flamingo chick adopted by Carlos and Fernando at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire /PA pics.

When one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned, they were considered the number one choice to "adopt" the chick.

The unhatched egg was whisked off to an incubator where it was warmed up and monitored, reports Sky News.

After the chick was born, it was carefully placed in an old eggshell, which was taped up and returned to the gay couple's empty nest.

The pair were soon seen 'talking' to the chick inside the egg and a little while later it hatched for a second time - to be greeted by its foster parents.

WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn said: "Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other Flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves.

"They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."

Carlos and Fernando, who have been together for about six years, can feed their chick without any female help - by producing milk in their throat.

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

How do the bird keepers know that?

Being a... bird keeper... probably has something to do with it.

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Soooo, eating one's own poop is NATURAL?

Ahem. Bold AND italics.

And yes, that apparently makes eating poop super-cool in the minds of the "But queerin' ain't NATURAL!, so there!" folks.

Besides, that was only one time. I was 11, give me a break.

BIG_DADDY · 05-23-2007, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

Being a... bird keeper... probably has something to do with it.

Ahem. Bold AND italics.

And yes, that apparently makes eating poop super-cool in the minds of the "But queerin' ain't NATURAL!, so there!" folks.

Being miserable is natural too apparently.

listopencil · 05-23-2007, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Soooo, eating one's own poop is NATURAL?

No in humans. But eating poop, even their own, happens in the animal kingdom. Not all food is digested in all animals the first time through so they give it another go. Gross but "natural".

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Being miserable is natural too I guess.

I shall not let events that occurred a decade ago define me!

BIG_DADDY · 05-23-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

I shall not let events that occurred a decade ago define me!

Whatever, you're one miserable dude and that's very apparent.

Simplex3 · 05-23-2007, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

"...known to steal other Flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves."

How do the bird keepers know that?

More to the point, does this reinforce the fact that gays are criminals?

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Whatever, you're one miserable dude and that's very apparent.

See, I could have said something like, "As is being an ignorant, roided-up letch, it would seem," but I'm trying to keep things civil. We're all adults here, after all.

listopencil · 05-23-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

Being a... bird keeper... probably has something to do with it.

Suggesting that the birds were stealing eggs for the purpose of rearing the young is questionable science. If it were true then the bird keepers wouldn't have had to incubate the young and hatch it before planting it in the "gay" flamingos' nest.

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Simplex3

More to the point, does this reinforce the fact that gays are criminals?

Not necessarily gays, just... all flamingos. What a bunch of assholes.

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Suggesting that the birds were stealing eggs for the purpose of rearing the young is questionable science. If it were true then the bird keepers wouldn't have had to incubate the young and hatch it before planting it in the "gay" flamingos' nest.

So, clearly, when they were stealing the eggs... they wanted some dinner or something? Were they going to sell them on the pink market? I think I'll take the word of the people who spend their lives around birds when it comes to this goofy little fluff piece, thanks.

listopencil · 05-23-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

So, clearly, when they were stealing the eggs... they wanted some dinner or something? Were they going to sell them on the pink market? I think I'll take the word of the people who spend their lives around birds when it comes to this goofy little fluff piece, thanks.

Egg stealing is a common enough practice amongst birds. As a food source is one of the reasons.

**Baby Lee** · 05-23-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ultra Peanut

So, clearly, when they were stealing the eggs... they wanted some dinner or something? Were they going to sell them on the pink market?

If you reject my rationalization in human terms, kindly replace it with an alternate humanistic rationalization!!!

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I think I'll take the word of the people who spend their lives around birds when it comes to this goofy little fluff piece, thanks.

GOD HATES BACKTRACKING!!!

listopencil · 05-23-2007, 04:31 PM

After a bit of research, I would have to agree with you. Flamingos appear to enjoy many different pairing situations and it is common for flamingos to steal each other's eggs when they are a part of a nonproductive pair (male-male or female-female). Apparently a male-male pair is higher up in the social order than a male-female pair.

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:32 PM

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GOD HATES BACKTRACKING!!!

How dare you mock religion, sir! HOW DARE YOU!

How.

Dare.

You.

Ultra Peanut · 05-23-2007, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

After a bit of research, I would have to agree with you. Flamingos appear to enjoy many different pairing situations and it is common for flamingos to steal each other's eggs when they are a part of a nonproductive pair (male-male or female-female). Apparently a male-male pair is higher up in the social order than a male-female pair.

Just like people!

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