Everyone knows you can’t help who you fall for and luckily for Sphen and Magic, two same-sex Gentoo penguins, their whirlwind romance is receiving support from all over the world.

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Everyone knows you can’t help who you fall for and luckily for Sphen and Magic, two same-sex Gentoo penguins, their whirlwind romance is receiving support from all over the world.

The hot new couple are residents of Sydney‘s, Australia, Sealife Aquarium, where it’s currently breeding season.

To prevent the couple from being excluded, Sphen and Magic, collectively known as Sphenic, were given a dummy egg to test their parenting skills and they passed with flying colours! So much so, that staff decided to give them a real egg from another couple who had two.

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