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[b]"Gay Flamingos Become Proud Parents" Sky News

Gay flamingos Carlos and Fernando have become proud foster parents after taking an abandoned chick under their wings.

The pink pair were so desperate to have a family they started stealing eggs at the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire.

But their egg-sitting and hatching skills impressed staff so much that when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned, they were considered the number one choice to "adopt" the chick.

The unhatched egg was whisked off to an incubator where it was warmed up and monitored.

Hours later a healthy chick hatched, but staff were concerned the duo would not bond with the newborn because the process normally begins when the chicks are "calling" them from inside the egg.

So the chick was carefully placed in an old eggshell, which was taped up and returned to the unsuspecting couple's empty nest.

The pair were soon seen 'talking' to the chick inside the egg and a little while later it hatched for a second time—to be greeted by its loving new foster parents.

WWT spokeswoman Jane Waghorn said:

"Fernando and Carlos are a same sex couple who have been known to steal other Flamingos' eggs by chasing them off their nest because they wanted to rear them themselves.

They were rather good at sitting on eggs and hatching them so last week, when a nest was abandoned, it seemed like a good idea to make them surrogate parents."

Carlos and Fernando, who have been together for about six years, can feed their chick without any female help—by producing milk in their throat.

The chick, who is being brought up in a "crčche" with 15 other newborns, has been welcomed into the flock, under the watchful eye of its new parents.

Gay flamingos are not particularly rare and enjoy an elevated status with their choice of partner.

The pair are Greater Flamingos, the most widely dispersed of the six flamingo species, being found in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. The average lifespan is about 30 years.

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Oringianlly posted by the devil's advocate: So the chick was carefully placed in an old eggshell, which was taped up and returned to the unsuspecting couple's empty nest.

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Originally posted by Tex
That's SO gay, and in a totally good way!

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Originally posted by God's b!tch
If god had wanted them to be parents, they would have heard the cry of the unborn chick they were "elected" to corrupt, the way that they were meant to hear. If flawed god-created, evolution-loving, human's hadn't inter ”fear” ed, the chick would have died, the way god meant it to be...rather than be raised by a couple of fa*gots who love buttsecks and hate baby Jesus.

allah be praised!

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Originally posted by Nellinator
How angsty of you.

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Originally posted by Schecter
i think the greatest tragedy of this story is the poor baby flamingo who will have to grow up under morally bankrupt and unnatural parents. i will pray for their forgiveness.

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Originally posted by Violent K
Jesus and God can kiss my ass.

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Originally posted by Fishy
That's kinda gay dude... God and Allah hate gays...

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Originally posted by Lightningrod
so you think

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Originally posted by Fishy
No, It's because the Bible and the Koran say so, and we all know that books written at least 1200 to 1700 years ago by humans is God's word. Not one mistaken translation, nothing was added by humans and I am 100% sure nothing was changed by them either.

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Originally posted by FeceMan
The Law in the Bible was communicated via angels, but that's really beside the point.

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Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Why does every gay discussion eventually turns into religion discussion? Get over it.
There are non-religious homophobes.