From USA Today:
Odense Zookeeper Sandie Hedgegard Munck said the zoo's male penguins, who she said are gay, took the chick while its parents were away, Denmark's broadcaster DR reports. The chick's mother was allegedly bathing at the time.
Munck told the station the male couple could have thought the chick's parents were neglectful and believed they could be better parents. So the same-sex couple nestled the chick and cared for it as if it were their own.
Later, the chick's parents confronted the gay couple and drama ensued, captured on video and posted to the Odense Zoo Facebook page. One of the chick's new foster parents squawk at the parents, keeping the chick between them and craning their necks. The zookeeper steps in and gives the chick back to its parents. Mama takes charge, securing the chick between her legs.
But the same-sex couple wasn't left completely childless. The zoo has given the males an egg from a mother who is unable care for it.
N.B. - The morbid journalists of the modern world, always out to terrify and horrify people, could have framed their own stories a little better, don't ya think?
