Same-sex penguin couple at a Sydney aquarium fosters an egg

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"A same-sex penguin couple at a Sydney aquarium has become the first in Australia to be handed a foster egg and staff say the two are showing signs they'll be "amazing parents".

Magic and Sphen, two gentoo penguins at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, formed a bond before the 2018 breeding season.

Tish Hannan, the aquarium's penguin department supervisor, said staff suspected love was in the air when they began noticing piles of ice pebbles set up as a nest each day.

"We'd go over there and Magic and Spehn would be bowing to each other," she said.

"Bowing is a gentoo way of saying they love each other, which is super cute."


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-12/gay-penguin-couple-at-sydney-aquarium-fostering-an-egg/10369530