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April 26, 2016
A pair of gay vultures in a German zoo have adopted an egg abandoned by its mother and started to incubate it in a nest they built (AFP Photo/Mujahid Safodien) |
Berlin
(AFP) - A pair of gay vultures in a German zoo have adopted an egg abandoned by
its mother and started to incubate it in a nest they built.
Animal
keepers had collected the egg in the muddy ground under a tree where it had
been dropped by a griffon vulture called Lisa, said national news agency DPA.
"Lisa
had made no attempt to build a nest," the report quoted Nordhorn zoo
spokeswoman Ina Deiting as saying.
The egg was
temporarily placed in an incubator before being entrusted to the male couple,
Isis and Nordhorn, who "promptly sat on it," said Deiting.
The
biological parentage of the egg is unclear, and zoo keepers also don't know yet
whether it is fertilised.
The story
of Isis and Nordhorn is the second involving gay birds to make news in Germany
this month.
Several
days ago newspapers reported that the gay king penguin couple Stan and Olli had
been moved from a Berlin zoo to an all-male enclosure in Hamburg.
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