Same-Sex Flamingos Hatch First Chick at Paignton Zoo

Curtis and Arthur, a pair of male flamingos, successfully incubated and adopted an abandoned egg, marking a first for the Devon zoo.

Paignton Zoo welcomes its first Chilean flamingo chicks since 2018, including one hatched by a same-sex pair.
The egg likely came from another couple who abandoned it, and Curtis and Arthur adopted and incubated it.
Same-sex parenting is a known phenomenon in flamingos and other bird species.
The zoo's Love Lagoon initiative, inspired by a reality TV show, has been documenting the flamingo couples.
Zoo staff hope for more successful hatches in the coming days and weeks.