14 DAY TRIAL // About two years ago, two penguins living in captivity at a zoo in Israel started spending quite a lot of time in each other's company.
Since birds belonging to this species choose just one mate and stick with it for the rest of their lives, zoo employees simply assumed that a new couple had formed in the penguin community at the facility.
However, DNA tests carried out not long after the two birds first started hanging out with one another revealed that these two penguins at the Ramat Gan Zoological Center were both females.
Today reports that, although they cannot have kids – not with one another, at least – Chupchikoni and Suki have built a nest, and even seem eager to start a family.
“They're living together, they have their own nest,” zookeeper Mor Porat reportedly told the press.
Furthermore, “They're also acting as if they were nesting. Obviously they don't have their own egg, but they’re doing everything like a couple of male and female.”
Apparently, visitors to the zoo quite enjoy hearing the story about this penguin couple.