Electra and Viola, two female penguins from the Oceanogràfic València aquarium in Valencia, Spain, have adopted their first egg!
Oceanogràfic València announced the news on Monday and shared the story of the happy family.
Bird-keepers began noticing the two penguins performing breeding rituals with each other and even built a nest, so they gave them an egg of their own. "They put two eggs each inside obviously without knowing they were not fertile, so we put one of the eggs from a different couple into their nest so that they could take care of it," bird-keeper Carlos Barros told UNILAD.
Now that egg has hatched and Electra and Viola have a chick of their own!
"The two have been able to adopt, incubate, and raise another couple's egg," the aquarium wrote in a post on its official Instagram. "Although same-sex couples are common in more than 450 species in both nature and zoos, it's the first time this has happened in our aquarium."
They hashtagged the post with #loveislove. "We are super proud of the moms."
It takes six weeks to perform the necessary blood tests to determine the chick's gender of newly hatched penguins, so a name will be announced at a later date.
The gays win again! Lesbian queens! We love a happy family!
Watch Oceanogràfic València's video footage of the Electra, Viola, and their new chick below!
