...they're greenies. They know the dangers of:

A) the introduction of non-native species in a foreign environment

B) in-breeding.

This is why they have made the decision that breeding is wrong and have withdrawn from the gene-pool. I nominate them for a special Darwin Award.

...homosexuality in animals is common, ongoing and well documented. Of course, you don't hear about it often in nature documentaries, probably because the broadcaster is worried about the viewer's "sensibilities".

From 2004:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

"Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins at New York's Central Park Zoo have been inseparable for six years now. They display classic pair-bonding behavior—entwining of necks, mutual preening, flipper flapping, and the rest. They also have sex, while ignoring potential female mates."

Chinstrap. Heh. Heh. Heh.

So, um, why are they intentionally trying to introduce a foreign species in the UK? What's the logic behind that?

The end of the world is nigh!

We've been warned about this sort of thing when god's(tm) creatures start homosexual relationships. These duckies should be removed from the sight of women and children immediately.

Please, think of the children!

We have two male pet rabbits that cuddle each other, clean each other and generally arae far tidier than any of the others. They amke a lovely couple and spur the advances of their amorous female co-habitors.

Chinstrap? Is THAT what the kids are calling it these days?

Kees Moeliker's paper "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard anas platyrhynchos" ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/09/gay_duck_honour/

Ben and Jerry? Poor show, centre warden Paul Stevens.

I'd have called one "Dorothy", and the other "Friend of Dorothy".

I don't care! Just send me the bill!

... better a quack than a duckie.

Back in secondary school, the vice principal gave us a "lecture" about sexuality, and told us about how homosexuality was unnatural, because there are no homosexual animals. He also told us that the day he ever watched two animals engaging in homosexual sex, would be the day that he would accept gays.

Seems like he's gonna have to accept it then...

how exactly does a duck whistle?

spoke out today ,he is also against gay Ducks (or was that "duckie") apparently.

This behaviour isn't new. In fact the 2003 Ignobel for biology, commended research detailing the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard

http://www.nmr.nl/nmr/pages/showPage.do?itemid=1930&instanceid=16

.......that should be shown to all the religous nuts who think that homosexuality is a godless sin rather than a naturally occuring sexual preference in the animal world.

Of course, religious nutjobs think that they and they only are right about this sort of thing despite having no proof of their position whatsoever!...

Ben & Jerry's snub Cherry Garcia in favour of Chocolate Fudge Brownie.

Will that do?

Probably a lesbian.

A duck goes into a drug store and asks to buy a tube of Chapstick. The clerk says, "That'll be $1.99." And the duck responds, "Just put it on my bill."

A few hours later, the same duck goes back into the pharmacy and this time tells the clerk that he needs to buy a condom. The clerk sarcastically says, "So, should I put this on your bill?" And the duck says, "Hey, I'm not that kind of duck."

Many bird nests are homosexuals. However, the species still reproduce through infidelities with the other sex...

I've been trying to explain to my curate it was all natural, but for some reason, he started spouting about Sodom and the 7th commandment...

Do I need to explain PH?

"Which just goes to show ... that homosexuality isn't very clever, from a Darwinian perspective."

Actually, it may in fact be incredibly clever: homosexuality may be an effective way to prevent defective genes from being generationally transmitted and thus dead-ending the gene(s) in question. It's been seriously suggested.

Everyone gets to have great sex with no risk of potentially passing on some combination of devastating inherited disorders.

It is a darwinian trait to draw parallels between human and non-human animal behaviour and use it as a model for humans. Any Christian who starts doing that needs to go back to their Bible.

According to the Bible, the difference between humans and all other animals is that humans is that humans were made in "God's likeness." Since God isn't human we can conclude it doesn't mean physical likeness, but that we were made with the ability to make moral decisions, which includes the ability to accept or reject God's leadership.

Me? I'm a tux-billed fatty-puss.

What a wonderful world. Rampaging roos and gay ducks. You wouldn't be dead for quids.

...to welcome our blue, camp, feathery avine overlords.

Of course its unatural! The whole point of having two different sexes is to produce children

by natures perpective. Unless of course your telling me this is envolution and that it was aiming

for homosexual people and animals.

Organisms on this planet , especially high up the scale are incredible complex requirin billions

of chemical reactions to go off correctly, its no wonder that occasionly the wiring goes wrong,

like people being born , beath, blind, nutters, whatever, sometimes we comeout not quite right.

However the difference is that we need not care because the the number of animals and people that are wired correctly allow the species to compensate for those that do not. Nature is resillent and allows us to absorbthe minor percentage that dont get built correctly.

Simply put the chances of there being 10% of the male population being either gay or with serious

homesexual tendencies is simply laughable, mother nature and evolution are just way to good at

the job, They've been doing thier double act for billions of years.

Paris because she does not mind if some like a little bob on boy action

So surely that makes Ben and Jerry a pair of Chocolate River Pilots...

<gorrit>

"homosexuality isn't very clever, from a Darwinian perspective"

You're not very clever, from any perspective, if you think that statement made any sense. What the fuck is a "Darwinian perspective"? Do you mean simply to point out that a male/male coupling won't produce offspring? Bravo, Einstein.

"it's really quite rare for animals to be exclusively homosexual – usually it just seems to be a case of mistaken identity due to raging hormones"

Show your working, please. Or to put it another way, what a steaming pile of made up bollocks.

@Niall

Here in Queensland we have a breed of duck known locally as 'whistling ducks', they do whistle (in fact noisy little buggers). How they whistle I know not, that they do whistle I know.

"Of course there are gay animals. Or did you think that animals maintained an equilibrium population through celibacy?"

Interesting position.

I (and most mathematicians) believe they maintain an equilibrium population through dying at the same rate as they are being born.

Or do animals think to themselves "hey, there's too many ducks around here, I'm going to be gay from now on otherwise we'll never achieve an equilibrium population without finding some new predators"?

Perhaps we'll never know. I'm sure Russell T Davies has an opinion, though. Maybe Dr Who could cover this in future?

Do gay ducks taste different?

Err, hang on, that's not what I meant...

Christians (and all the other god botherers) say its not natural... Ducks say it is...

Ducks are indisputably natural...

Therefore...

Christians (and all the other god botherers) are not natural and homosexuality is natural.

So I was right all along! hurrah! :)