Chlamydia kills a dozen penguins. Zoo blames promiscuous seagull!

[Little_Nemo]

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…

[Shirley_Ujest]

Polly Want A Schwing!

[CynicalGabe]

@Shirley Ujest

Polly Want A Schwing!

…

It hurts. Make the laughter stop.

[Anne_Neville]

@Shirley Ujest

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:

@Joe Garofoli

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.

“No, we can rule that out,” Jenkins said. “Even in San Francisco.”