The most aww - inducing story of the week must certainly go to the mirthful queen penguin brace that rescued a chick they suppose was being neglected . An avian social services , if you will .

The incident occurred at Odense Zoo in Denmark , where staff told Danish broadcasterDRthe mischievous couple “ kidnapped ” the chick while its biological father was on a wander – and clearly fail his paternal responsibility .

" I think the female has been out to get her bathtub , and then it has been the male ’s go to care for the kid , " Sandie Hedegård Munck , an animal custodian at the zoological garden , toldDR . " He may have result that , and that match has think , it ’s a pity , we ’ll get it . "

Which is extremely bad parenting on the part of the baby pa . Penguin expert Dyan de Napoli toldNewsweek , " In the wild , the raw conduct is that up until a certain age , one of the parents will always be with the biddy . "

So , how did the penguin parent respond when they returned to find their chick had gone AWOL ? plainly , the father did n’t even appear to notice . He continued to waddle around as if he had never had a kid in the first berth . The mother ( manifestly the more nurturing of the pair ) was seen research for her biddy .

" I know that the female person is very caring for the fry , and she is also very fast-growing to us beast lover if we get too confining to the kid , "   Munckadded .

According toNBC News , staff decide not to get involved and would have allowed the surrogate parent to keep their adoptee had the biological parent not gone look for it . But the solar day after the kidnapping , they did .

The incident culminate with a face-off and a small affray . ( Do n’t interest , no birds were hurt . ) With a little service from the keepers , the wench was return to its biologic parents

These penguin are   not the first jocund beast distich to take over a child in motive . In 2014 , Wingham Wildlife Park ’s   Jumbs and Kermit   – two male Humboldt penguins   – raised a chick after its female parent abandoned   it   because her partner had refused to help incubate it . The park owner praised the duet , calling them"two of the salutary penguin parents we have had yet " . There have also been stories ofhomosexual vulturesandbisexual   polyamorous geesewith exchangeable outcomes .

The good news here is that there is a happy ending for the gay penguin couple too . keeper have given the two male penguins an egg from a unmarried female parent unable to rear a chick on her own .