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Gay flamingos adopt egg, turn daddies!
Published on Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:54, Updated on Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:08 in Wild Wacky World section
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Slimbridge, Gloucestershire, England: In the tranquil setting of wetlands in rural England, an unusual union of Carlos and Fernando has been going steady for the past six-years. But despite the boys’ rock solid relationship, there was something missing.
When a newly-hatched flamingo chick was abandoned by its mother and father, the search for surrogate parents did not take long. Carlos and Fernando, the only gays in the bird sanctuary, were the automatic choice.
The pair has already brought up three chicks after snatching eggs from other couples at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. The pair of gay flamingos was so good at snuggling up to the eggs, that when the chick was abandoned, they were on top of the flamingo foster list.
“We wanted them to see it hatching so they could bond with it, so we took a disused eggshell from a swan, put this chick inside the eggshell, taped it up and let it hatch from there," said Rebecca Lee, Flamingo Warden.
Placed it under the parent birds—Carlos and Fernando—and they went straight to the nest and were talking to it as it was hatching.” but can two - er - avian males do the mothering thing?
“Well I think it happens all over the animal kingdom - I've heard of it before,” said one visitor.
And as they even produce milk for the baby in their throats, these guys don't even need help feeding baby.
Carlos and Fernando will bring up the as yet unnamed baby for the next four months, and if they prove responsible parents, they may even get another egg to hatch.
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