Skipper and Ping have had a longstanding dream to become parents together, where they’ve previously attempted to hatch stones and other objects.
. But their longstanding dreams may come true very soon, as the two have adopted an egg abandoned by its mother. If all goes well and the egg is fertile, Skipper and Ping will finally become parents by early September.
Zookeepers say that the pair of king penguins have been "looking after the egg in an exemplary manner." This doesn’t come as a surprise to zoo workers, who only placed the egg in their vicinity after watching them attempt to hatch stones and other objects since they arrived from a Hamburg zoo in April, according toThis would not only be a win for the penguin duo, but their feat would also mark a milestone for Berlin Zoo.
"We just had to put it in front of one of the males. He immediately knew what to do. This is the first time we have tried to have a same-sex penguin couple incubate an egg," keeper Norbert ZahmelSkipper and Ping aren’t the first same-sex penguin parents to make headlines. Several years ago, New York
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