Harry and Pepper were a couple of male penguin pals living in the San Francisco Zoo. The two of them adopted an egg last year, incubated it, hatched it, and provided care for the chick. But a different sort of chick has busted up the same-sex pair. Linda, widowed when her longtime companion Fig passed away this year, had an eye for Harry.
Pepper got violent and the zookeepers had to remove him from the penguin exhibit temporarily. Harry and Linda are now nesting together. Last Friday Pepper was allowed back into the enclosure, and so far the three of them are getting along.
San Francisco might not ever be the same again.
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Same-sex penguin couple split [UPI.com; July 12, 2009]
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