#queer bird behavior

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This is also a friendly reminder that roughly 1/4 of all Black Swan pairings are gay males. And here are Dashik and Yehuda, two male griffon vultures who paired up and were given an artificial egg and then a chick to raise together at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo! (It’s not a creationist zoo, it’s just a zoo featuring animals that are mentioned in the Bible). 

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I feel the need to remind everyone that Lesbia and Sappho are bird genera of hummingbirds (the Black-tailed Trainbearer, L. victoriae, at the top; the Green-trailed Trainbearer, L. nuna, second; and the Red-tailed comet, S. sparganurus). So here they are! 

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Roy and Silo, a mated pair of chinstrap penguins!