Germany's gay zoo penguins still fending off female advances	動(dòng)物園雄性企鵝搞同性戀拒絕繁育后代
Male Humboldt penguin pair "Sechs Punkt" (Six Point) and "Schraegstrich" (Slash) cuddling at the Bremerhaven Six gay penguins at a German zoo are still refusing to mate with females of the species flown in from Sweden in 2005, the zoo said. The problem was that the female Humboldt penguins have proven too shy in their advances, the director of the zoo in the northern port city of Bremerhaven said. "The Swedes will not make the first move," Heike Kueck said. The females were flown in last year in a bid to bring the males to mate and help save the Humboldt species from extinction. Kueck said last year she was optimistic the initiative would be successful because zoo keepers had noticed that at one point a female penguin had managed to cause a couple of males to "separate". The zoo has 10 male penguins of which six have shown strong signs of preferring male company and formed couples among themselves. The initiative to "turn" the penguins and make them mate had prompted a furious response from gay rights groups. In a statement posted on its Internet website, the zoo on Wednesday sought to defend itself from fresh criticism. "We will be delighted if the penguins form even one heterosexual couple and manage to produce first an egg, and then a little one," it said. "But of course we accept the male couples that have formed and we are not trying to enforce heterosexuality, as we were accused of doing last year." (Agencies)	德國(guó)一家動(dòng)物園表示，他們的六只雄性同性戀企鵝仍然不和從瑞典來(lái)的同類(lèi)雌性交配。 這家動(dòng)物園位于德國(guó)北部城市不來(lái)梅港，動(dòng)物園主管海克·許克說(shuō)，問(wèn)題是雌性洪堡企鵝向來(lái)很害羞，不會(huì)主動(dòng)接近雄性。 許克說(shuō)："瑞典企鵝不會(huì)主動(dòng)出擊。" 去年，動(dòng)物園為了讓和雄性交配，引進(jìn)了雌性企鵝，以防止洪堡企鵝滅絕。 許克說(shuō)，去年她對(duì)他們的做法很樂(lè)觀，認(rèn)為將會(huì)獲得成功。因?yàn)閯?dòng)物園管理員有一次看到，一只雌性企鵝成功地"分開(kāi)"了一對(duì)雄性企鵝。 這家動(dòng)物園里有10只雄性企鵝，其中六只非常喜歡和同性呆在一起，成了三對(duì)同性戀伴侶。 "轉(zhuǎn)變"企鵝的性?xún)A向，讓他們和異性交配的做法引發(fā)了同性戀權(quán)利組織的強(qiáng)烈反對(duì)。 這家動(dòng)物園星期三在它的網(wǎng)站上發(fā)表聲明，反駁同性戀組織近日對(duì)他們的批評(píng)。 聲明中說(shuō)："這些企鵝中哪怕能組成一對(duì)異性伴侶，順利生下一個(gè)蛋，長(zhǎng)成一只小企鵝，我們也會(huì)很高興的。" "但是，我們當(dāng)然也同意兩只同性企鵝在一起，我們不是強(qiáng)調(diào)要異性戀，我們?nèi)ツ昃驮谶@一問(wèn)題上被譴責(zé)。"         (中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)站編譯)