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28th September 2018
12:27pm BST

"I could see that something was completely wrong. The parents disappeared and the kid was simply kidnapped. "It was a pair of gay males who had snatched it and was stood with it.”Sandie said that when the chick's parents did not immediately return from their swim, the couple thought that they could look after the chick themselves. However, once the parents did arrive to claim their chick a fight ensued.
The gay penguins eventually retreated accepting that the chick was not their to take.
Odense Zoo have since given the birds their own egg to raise from a mother who cannot look after the chick herself due to an illness.
One of the dads-to-be is now successfully brooding on the egg.Explore more on these topics: