Ex-Gay Penguin at Central Park Zoo

NEW YORK, NY -- Zookeepers at the Central Park Zoo in New York are scratching their heads after the animal kingdom's most beloved gay couple, the penguins Silo and Roy, has split up. To make the case even more obscure, Silo decided to pull an Anne Heche and hook up with a member of the opposite sex instead.

The couple received worldwide media attention when they hooked up six years ago as the first publicly known same-sex penguin couple. Since then, six other gay penguin couples have emerged at the zoo.

When Silo and Roy desperately tried to incubate a rock, zookeepers decided to offer them a real penguin egg. They successfully hatched the egg and raised the adoptive chick.

If it was a case of midlife crisis for Silo is unknown but the fact is that the trouble started when penguin fem fatale Scrappy moved into the neighborhood, catching the wandering eye of Silo.

"Silo and Roy stopped spending as much time together or building a nest," John Rowden, the zoo's head curator, told The New York Post. Silo promptly moved in with Scrappy, building a new nest with her.