Rare Male Ducks Fall In Love
Updated : Mar 14, 2009
Blue Ducks are facing extinction in the UK because the only two remaining males have fallen in love.
The rare birds, named Ben and Jerry, are being kept at a bird sanctuary in West Sussex along with the sole remaining female Blue Duck, Cherry. Keepers at the Arundel Wetland Centre had hoped that one of the drakes would mate with Cherry but Ben and Jerry are apparently more interested in each other now inseparable.
Centre warden Paul Stevens said that he was disappointed but added that the two male birds make "a lovely couple. They stay together all the time, parading up and down their enclosure and whistling to each other as a male might do with a female he wants to mate with.
VeryHappyPig says ah well, you can’t choose who fall in love with!
