The second story that caught my eye in the Sunday Times' Weird but wonderful section concerned attempts to breed Cherry, the last remaining female blue duck in Britain, with either Ben or Jerry, the last remaining UK male blue ducks.
It seems that Ben and Jerry are much less interested in Cherry than they are in each other! According to Paul Stevens, the warden,
"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."One wonders if a civil partnership is in the offing?
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