A pair of male king penguins at Berlin Zoo are fulfilling a long-standing ambition to become parents, by adopting an egg abandoned by its mother.
"We just had to put it in front of one of the males. He immediately knew what to do. This is the first time we have tried to have a same-sex penguin couple incubate an egg," one zookeeper said.Karl Broeseke / Berlin ZooBERLIN —
Ten-year-olds Skipper and Ping had previously displayed their instincts as nurturers by trying to hatch stones and even fish, a zoo spokesman said. Their encounter with the real thing came last month after a king penguin mother abandoned an egg - and they jumped at the chance.
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