Male penguin pair, New York zoo’s first same-sex foster parents, doing ‘great job’ raising baby chick

Two male Humboldt penguins who adopted an egg during breeding season are the proud new foster parents of a fuzzy-haired chick — and the New York zoo where it hatched says its first-ever same-sex couple to take on this role is doing a “great job.”

The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse has for years worked to boost the dwindling population of Humboldt penguins in the wild. This species, which can be found off the coast of Chile and Peru in South America, is listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.