Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
The recently hatched chick is being raised by a male same-sex penguin couple in New York (Pic: Rosamond Gifford Zoo) Congratulations are in order for a same-sex penguin couple who’ve become proud parents after caring for a foster egg. Elmer and Lima, a male Humboldt penguin couple at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in New York, hatched the feathery bundle of joy on 1 January, although the news was only announced in the past week.
The same-sex foster couple were given the fertilised egg of a breeding couple that has a history of inadvertently breaking their eggs.
Elmer and Lima were chosen to have their fostering capabilities assessed after they paired up for the breeding season, built a nest and defended their territory.
They were first tested with a dummy egg. “Some pairs, when given a dummy egg, will sit on the nest but leave the egg to the side and not incubate it correctly, or they’ll fight for who is going to sit on it when,” said Zoo Director Ted Fox. “That’s how we evaluate who will be good foster parents — and Elmer and Lima were exemplary in every aspect of egg care.” They were then presented with a real fertilised egg and took turns to incubate the egg until it hatched and have been brooding (warming) and feeding the chick since. “It continues to be brooded and cared for by both Elmer and Lima, who are doing a great job.
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