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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Chelsea Ritschel

UNCOVERED: Gay penguins adopt abandoned egg at berlin zoo - Caught on Camera

Ping and Skipper adopted the abandoned egg (Reuters)

Two male penguins are set to fulfil their goal of becoming parents after they were given an abandoned egg to care for. 

The couple, Skipper and Ping, who live at Berlin Zoo, have long wanted to have a penguin chick of their own, and have even tried hatching “fish and stones” in the past, according to zoo spokesperson Maximilian Jäger, who spoke to the Berliner Zeitung newspaper. 

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