Apparently the chick was released back into the wild, which concerns me only insofar as that: if it learned to try and attract a same sex partner from the parents, that COULD actually prove detrimental given this is meant to be a conservancy program.
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And yes, I know, gay parents don't make gay babies blah-de-blah - these are birds, not humans.
It doesn't appear that the males learnt their behaviours from their parents, or from observing other male/male couples, so I think the little one will be fine.
I saw a documentary about, I think it was Penguins but I'm not completely sure, where they showed this happening in the wild. They said that gay couples often take care of abandoned eggs and that this could be kind of the reason why homosexuality exists even though at first it seems like a disadvantage for the species. The gay couples are there to adopt orphans that otherwise wouldn't have survived.
And on a side note here, if this is true and adoption is basically the evolutional purpose of gay people, it is rather concerning that humans often try to strip gay couples of their right to adopt because they are afraid the children could become gay because of that.
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And yes, I know, gay parents don't make gay babies blah-de-blah - these are birds, not humans.
And on a side note here, if this is true and adoption is basically the evolutional purpose of gay people, it is rather concerning that humans often try to strip gay couples of their right to adopt because they are afraid the children could become gay because of that.