China to marry deer and ram

14 Feb 2012, 12:17 pm   -   Source: AFP
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Other images found on photo agency websites show the pair copulating. (Getty)

Other images found on photo agency websites show the pair copulating. (Getty)

A Chinese zoo is to hold a Valentine's Day wedding for a male sheep and a female deer whose unconventional relationship has captured the public imagination.

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A Chinese zoo is to hold a Valentine's Day wedding for a male sheep and a female deer whose unconventional relationship captured the public imagination, the official Xinhua news agency said.
  
Visitors have flooded to the wildlife park in the southwestern province of Yunnan to see the sheep, whose Chinese name Changmao means long hair, and the deer, Chunzi (pure), after zookeepers revealed online that the pair had begun mating.
  
The wildlife park is to issue 500 special tickets, at 66 yuan (around $10) apiece, for the occasion, the state-run China News Service reported.
  
But experts warned against attaching human qualities to animals.
  
"Leaving them alone is the best choice," Xinhua quoted biologist Wang Dajun as saying.

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Adam - from Melbourne, 3 months ago

First a sheep and a deer, next same sex couples ... what's the world coming to.

Odd.

Kev - from Noraville, 3 months ago

This is Odd, a worthy topic for a Odd category, what an odd world ;)

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