Famous Gay Penguins Split Up

By Corey July 16, 2009 3 comments

Silo and Roy, the famous gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo, have split up after Silo decided to take up with a female penguin named Scrappy, a new penguin in the enclosure. Heartbreakingly, Roy is described as spending his time “staring at the wall.”

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Corey

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Corey is a lifelong upstate New Yorker who recently took the plunge and moved to the city. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list and broke the magical 300 barrier in New York State in 2007 by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative. He lives near Forest Park in Queens with Daisy and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

3 Responses to “Famous Gay Penguins Split Up”

  1. The exact same thing happened in San Francisco too.

    http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/07/12/Same-sex-penguin-couple-split/UPI-56931247417354/

    These are sad days for gay penguin couples…

  2. What the heck is going on with the gay penguins?

  3. What does one say to that? Hooray for the girls or I’m sorry for the boy? Love is totally unpredictable!

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