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Animals: Male pelican couple adopts chicks

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Animals
Male pelican couple adopts chicks

Two adoptive fathers look after a small spotted-billed pelican chick in the Berlin zoo. photo

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Unexpected parental happiness for a same-sex pelican couple: two pelican men look after a chick in the Berlin zoo. Her desire to have children was great.

Berlin (dpa) Father, father, child: There is unusual family happiness in the pelican colony in the Berlin zoo. The adoptive fathers “Charlie Brown” and “Halle” are caring for a small spotted-billed pelican chick that was born on January 23rd, a spokeswoman for the zoo reported on Monday. The egg of a pair of Spot-billed Pelicans had fallen out of the nest and was no longer cared for by its parents. It initially went into an incubator.

The male sea pelican couple wanted to breed anyway and had even had a dummy egg placed in the nest. According to the spokeswoman, this was exchanged for the fertilized egg shortly before hatching. The couple hatched it successfully. The chick, which does not yet have a name, is now growing up in the care of its two caring adoptive fathers.

Baby happiness for pelicans

“The pair had already bred in previous years, but separately with female marine pelicans. This season is the first time that these two have come together as a same-sex couple,” said the spokeswoman.

According to the information, marine pelicans are very social birds; during the breeding season they build a nest out of different materials, such as twigs, feathers or grass. Young animals hatch after about 30 days of incubation and are fed by both parents.