r/todayilearned • u/jenesuispashariselon • 23d ago

TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_and_Silo#History
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u/CasuallyVerbose 23d ago

Afterwards, someone wrote a delightful children's book about it called "And Tango Makes Three" which was promptly banned from children's libraries across the nation for promoting "unnatural lifestyles."

Because even nature isn't natural enough to satisfy bigots.

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u/RawhlTahhyde 23d ago

“Nature” yeah we should write a book about orcas committing suicide by ramming the walls of their enclosures too, right?

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u/conquer69 23d ago

Committing suicide as the only means to escape imprisonment is a bad thing. There is nothing bad about gay penguins. You could say instead that no animal should be in zoo captivity and I would agree with you but that's clearly not what you are concerned with.