Queerty

Happy Father's Day to a gay penguin couple in Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo.

The couple has been fostering a chick given to them by zoo handlers, after the egg was rejected several times by its biological parents.

The new dads are one of three same-sex couples in a colony of twenty at the zoo. Scientists originally tried to split-up the couple to encourage breeding, but the they continued to come back to each other.

Since hatching a few days ago, the chick is thriving!

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Our friends at Sesame Street have brought wisdom to the forefront with a question about marriage.

Grover: Hi Jessie.
Jessie: Hi Grover.
Grover: I have a question for you.
Jessie: What is it?
Grover: Do you know what marriage is?
Jessie: A marriage is when two people get married... they kiss... they hug... they live together... they help each other...
Grover: Are they friends also?