When it comes to stories about animals, some people might get the impression that we’re all about the gay penguins, but it’s simply not true: we eagerly scan the news every morning for news of other interesting animal behaviours, be they sexual behaviours or not, ’cause hey, animals are more than just meat. Today just happens to be a gay flamingo kind of day. Carlos and Fernando have adopted an abandoned chick in a Bristol zoo, after six years of pleading with authorities and attempting to steal eggs. The placement was put together by the birds’ captors after an abandoned egg was discovered, and everyone seems happy, except for the whole living in a cage thing. Same-sex flamingo pairings are apparently pretty common in flocks where there aren’t enough birds of the opposite sex. I don’t know if this news in itself would be enough to make anyone reconsider their diet, but if if instead of spending all their “animal research” time learning the right ratio of, say, lemon to pepper in an animal-based recipe, people actually tried learning about the activities, personalities, and habits of the animals they’re eating, it might form a more interesting debate around the dinner table. (Er, not that many people eat flamingo, but the story was too good a match for our primary URL…)
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