Gay ducks out in Sweden
The Local Sweden - [email protected]
Published: 7 Apr, 2006 CET.
Updated: Fri 7 Apr 2006 08:45 CET
In the middle of mating season, a couple of male ducks returned to a park in southern Sweden, for the third consecutive year, ignoring the siren calls of all the lady ducks around them.
Far from the torments of bird flu and temptations of the opposite sex, the two common shelducks appear only to have eyes for each other - in a sort of ducky gay marriage.
"We can state that they act exactly like a couple (composed) of a man and woman, the bigger one always defending the smaller duck," Lennarth Blomquist, in charge of bird management in the southern city of Malmö, told the TT news agency.
"Shelducks mate for life," he said, indicating that these two ducks have found in each other the love of their lives.
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Far from the torments of bird flu and temptations of the opposite sex, the two common shelducks appear only to have eyes for each other - in a sort of ducky gay marriage.
"We can state that they act exactly like a couple (composed) of a man and woman, the bigger one always defending the smaller duck," Lennarth Blomquist, in charge of bird management in the southern city of Malmö, told the TT news agency.
"Shelducks mate for life," he said, indicating that these two ducks have found in each other the love of their lives.
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