Odd Ducks

[Dardedar]

Couple of ducks 'come out' in Sweden

Thu Apr 6, 4:07 PM ET

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - In the middle of mating season, a couple of male ducks returned to a park in southern Sweden, for the third consecutive year, ignoring the siren calls of all the lady ducks around them.
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Far from the torments of bird flu and temptations of the opposite sex, the two common shelducks appear only to have eyes for each other -- in a sort of ducky gay marriage.

"We can state that they act exactly like a couple (composed) of a man and woman, the bigger one always defending the smaller duck," Lennarth Blomquist, in charge of bird management in the southern city of Malmo, told the TT news agency.

"Shelducks mate for life," he said, indicating that these two ducks have found in each other the love of their lives.

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[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Species that are genetically coded for monogamy (rather than religiously exhorted for it) bond at the appropriate time with who or whatever is closest - the preference is for male/female (or the species would die), but the bonding will occur in the following order of possibilities - 1) same species opposite gender, 2) same species same gender, 3) different species opposite gender, 4) different species same gender. Homosexuality occurs in nature, which makes it natural. However, it naturally occurs in species that are genetically coded for monogamy, which homo sapiens sapiens is not - so the argument can continue.