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Topic Started: Nov 3 2009, 09:50 PM (102 Views)
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Picky Penguin Gets Her Man Back
By Josh Ward

It's a common tale: Man meets penguin, penguin meets man, they fall in love. A German zoo has witnessed a bittersweet love affair between two very unequal partners.

"Old love never dies," the country song goes, "it just fades away." Well, maybe so, but occasionally it comes back, too. At least that's the case when it comes to an animal keeper in the southern German city of Münster and a penguin named Sandy.

This roller-coaster story of love started 13 years ago, when a one-year-old African penguin was transferred from a zoo in Nuremberg to the Allwetterzoo Münster. But rather than integrating herself into the penguin population, Sandy set her sights on her keeper. "At the beginning," Peter Vollbracht, 47, told SPIEGEL ONLINE, "we found it very funny. Normally you have to wear thick gloves to handle these penguins because they have really sharp beaks and can give you a good whack with their wings. But Sandy" -- as Vollbracht named her -- "would just sit on my boot or arm and ask to be petted."

With Vollbracht around, Sandy completely ignored the zoo's other 80-plus penguins. "She didn't care about anyone else," Vollbracht says. "I was just her big penguin."

More - and there's a lot more :twist , here:


http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,658985,00.html#ref=nlint

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Did anyone else notice Daves sweat when sardines were mentioned
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Awww, so sweet!! I'm glad this special bonding is finally being recognized. Now other mixed couples can come out of the closet!!! :P
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I'm out of the closet now, Laurie. Lovely article, Firth.
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