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Penguin love triangle

A gay relationship between two male penguins at a zoo has ended after six years, because one dumped the other for a female.

Harry has left Pepper for another “more attractive” bird - a widow called Linda - at San Francisco Zoo.

The LA Times reported that Harry and Pepper had lived happily side-by-side, protecting eggs abandoned by other penguins, for many years. But the relationship came to an end when Harry moved into a neighbouring nest with Linda.

Harrison Edell, a curator of birds at the zoo, said that Linda’s recently-deceased partner was a leader of sorts among the zoo’s penguin community, commanding not one but two nests.

“For penguins, real estate means a lot,” Mr Edell told the LA Times. “So as far as penguins go, she was a pretty attractive prospect.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .