Gay flamingos adopt rejected chick at Edinburgh Zoo

A gay flamingo couple have taken a baby chick under their wings after its mother refused to take care of it.

Five baby Chilean Flamingos were born as part of Edinburgh Zoo’s breeding programme earlier this month (October), but one of the eggs was abandoned by its parents when it accidentally fell out of the nest.

Thankfully, one of the zoo’s same-sex male couples soon swooped in and began to raise the chick as their own.

“We weren’t short of drama in the flamingo flock this year,” the zoo’s bird keeper told The Mirror. “When the first egg arrived the parenting couple got really excited and accidentally knocked it off the nest – their natural instinct was then to abandon the egg.”

He continued: “We don’t usually intervene with our flamingo flock but as this was our first egg since 2010, we carefully picked it up and placed it back on the nest.

“Luckily, one of our same sex male couples went straight onto the nest, fostered the egg and raised it as their own.”

If you fancy checking out another heartwarming story, watch a gay couple getting engaged on ‘The Ellen Show’ earlier this week here.