# Chlamydia kills a dozen penguins. Zoo blames promiscuous seagull!

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**Created:** [May 6, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlamydia-kills-a-dozen-penguins-zoo-blames-promiscuous-seagull/302720 "2005-05-06T17:20:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlamydia-kills-a-dozen-penguins-zoo-blames-promiscuous-seagull/302720/21 "2005-05-09T15:42:20Z")

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> Fun fact: you can get it (rather innocently) from your pet parrot!

If saying oral sex with your parrot is “rather innocent” helps you sleep at night…

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**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlamydia-kills-a-dozen-penguins-zoo-blames-promiscuous-seagull/302720/22 "2005-05-09T20:36:29Z")

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Polly Want A Schwing!

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**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlamydia-kills-a-dozen-penguins-zoo-blames-promiscuous-seagull/302720/23 "2005-05-09T22:44:43Z")

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> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> Polly Want A Schwing!

…

It hurts. Make the laughter stop.

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**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlamydia-kills-a-dozen-penguins-zoo-blames-promiscuous-seagull/302720/24 "2005-05-09T23:09:48Z")

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> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> How do they know it wasn’t an infected human that suffers from penguin lust?

The San Francisco Chronicle article about the penguins [actually talked about that](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/06/BAGC8CKRG81.DTL):

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> There is next to zero chance, zoo officials said, that the penguins caught the disease from humans in an untoward way that can be glimpsed onscreen in a low-rent Market Street theater.
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> “No, we can rule that out,” Jenkins said. “Even in San Francisco.”

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