Fish cuddle, gibbon pairs have their own song: But is this really love or just pair bonding? Ilse Tutter, zoo guide in Hellabrunn, asks herself that, and not just on Valentine’s Day. Dates are even arranged for some of the zoo’s residents – completely unromantic.
The two are still cuddling between the tentacles. Intimately, you could almost say. But she is already old and will die soon. Then he becomes a woman and immediately looks for a new, this time male, companion. This behavior can be found practical or extremely unromantic. For the anemonefish, it’s the natural course of things: born male, in love, mated, widowed, turned female, and then all over again.