Two male vultures incubate an egg rejected by the female
GAYLES.TV.- It's Friday and although we are very cool about the Olympic bodies, we kind of start to feel saturation and we want to change the roll. Today to degrease we bring you a couple of stories of vultures that, although distant in time and space, come to confirm what we already knew: that animals do not understand gender or sexual option, but rather reread you "Of animals and homosexuals" o "Transsexuality in animals".
It turns out that in the Nordhorn zoo, west of Germany, live 2 males, Isis and Nordhorn which form the only stable pair among the vulture population of the park and Lisa, a female that when feeling unattended by the males could have maintained relations with a bird of another species. A caretaker of the park observed a strange behavior in Lisa: bent over a branch dropped an egg softened by rain from a height of 2 meters and apparently did not show signs of wanting to make a nest. As luckily the egg was intact, they offered it to the pair of vultures that immediately sat on top to incubate. The gay couple was the most reliable alternative since if the breeding is done by humans the vultures develop unnatural behavior. And now they expect to be parents soon. Congratulations, family!
But this is not the first couple of gay vultures to decide to start a family. Some years ago the torrid romance between Dashik and Yehuda, two male vultures, no less than in the Biblical Zoo of Jerusalem It jumped to the headlines of half the world. The zookeepers decided to reward their passion by offering them an artificial egg that both began to hatch. In view of the dedication, a moment of absence from the nest was used to replace the false egg with a female griffon vulture chick. Dashik and Yehuda adopted the baby and took care of her until she was an adult female.
But fate wanted a female to cross in the path of Yehuda that made him rethink his sexual choice. Poor Dashik fell into a deep depression and was transferred to the zoo of the University of Tel Aviv where he also met another bird with which to rebuild his life. But they say that things always happen for something and the curl curled when according to account Michal Erez, head of the bird section at the Jerusalem Zoo. "The spouses of Yehuda and Dashik laid an egg on the same day and after the incubation period, which also started on the same day, two female chicks were born of exactly the same weight. I have never seen two babies of the same weight and unless they were born of different couples ".
Today, the girls are already two young vultures who inhabit a cage of their own and make company to each other. Will they end up being the first pair of lesbians vultures daughters of the first pair of vultures gais? Who gives more?
Happy weekend!!
Sources: 20 minutes, lainformación.com
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