[WATCH] Twitter reacts to two male penguins caring for an egg
Social media users are baffled over two male penguins at a Sydney aquarium purportedly in love.
A video has gone viral, showing the two male penguins apparently in love at the Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia.
It's breeding season for penguins, but Sphen and Magic have stolen the hearts of thousands after staff noticed that they too were struck by Cupid's arrow.
Collectively known as 'Sphenic', the couple have created a nest out of ice pebbles and started to care for an egg.
Staff initially gave the lovers a fake egg, but replaced it with a real one after they concluded that the two dads are more than skilled at incubating the egg.
GAY PENGUINS IS ALL IVE EVER NEEDED IN LIFE
— spooky cloudie @ zines/inktober 🎃 (@fluffysmolcloud) October 12, 2018
Gay penguins are T H R I V I N G https://t.co/553R0Aw4g5
— Valerie Lynn (@smallestvalerie) October 12, 2018
A lovely gay couple at Penguin Island in WA were given an abandoned egg. To everyone's delight it hatched and the chick's dads were loving faultless parents. After many seasons fruitlessly preparing their nest, it was so wonderful they finally got an egg to raise too . . . ❤❤❤
— Tansy (@dream_tansy) October 12, 2018