The Edinburgh Zoo has reportedly added five Chilean Flamingo babies (on top of the 33 adults they have) this year. This was brought about by the successful breeding of this exotic bird for the first time since 2010.
One of the chicks, however, had a tough time because its parents kicked it out of the nest. Lucky for him, a "gay couple" took over and adopted him.
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| image courtesy of mirror.co.uk |
Nick Dowling, senior bird keeper at the zoo, said: "We weren't short of drama in the flamingo flock this year. When the first egg arrived the parenting couple got really excited and accidentally knocked it off the nest - their natural instinct was then to abandon the egg. We don't usually intervene with our flamingo flock but as this was our first egg since 2010, we carefully picked it up and placed it back on the nest. Luckily, one of our same sex male couples went straight onto the nest, fostered the egg and raised it as their own."
Colin Oulton, a team leader, said: "This year has been good for us so far. We've had five chicks and it's the first time we've bred since 2010. We are obviously delighted. We've been able to utilise these male male bonds and it's working out fairly well. Male male pairs are equally able to rear youngsters."
Wow. Just wow.
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