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Gay What?
5-Mar-2006
Written by: Carrie Ng
Two local Missouri libraries have relocate a children’s book about two gay penguins.
Parents of Savannah, Missouri claim that "And Tango Makes Three" promotes homosexuality. The plot of the book is true. It tells a story of two male penguins, Silo and Roy, who adopted an abandoned egg at New York City’s Central Park Zoo in the late 1990’s.
The book has been moved from the children’s section of two libraries, Rolling Hills' Consolidated Library's branches in Savannah and St. Joseph in northwest Missouri, and can be found in the non-fiction section of each respectable establishment.
The two penguins mimicked caring for an egg by putting a rock in the folds of their bodies, making a nest, and sitting on the egg. Finally, zoo-keepers gave the couple a fertile egg that had been abandoned. The couple cared for the egg for 34 days until it hatched. Tango, was raised by the pair until she was able to live on her own.
Zoologists are not quite sure why there are same-sex couples among animals. The two remained together until early last year, when they broke up. Roy briefly dappled with a female penguin, but is single again.
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