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Chinese zoo at a loss what to do when a deer and a ram fall in love
Staff at a wildlife park in southwest China have turned to the country’s half a billion web users for advice after a male sheep and a female deer began mating — and soon became inseparable.
A posting on the park’s microblog posed the question: “What do you do when a ram falls in love with a deer?” It asked readers whether they agreed it would be “unethical” to let the unusual pairing continue.
“They do not want to be separated but it is unethical to let them go on,” said the posting, addressed to users of China’s hugely popular weibos — microblogging services similar to Twitter that have taken the country by storm.
Photo of the day
A fallow deer buck watches from the cover of a bracken thicket after sunrise during the autumn rut at Richmond Park on October 10, 2011 in London, England. Autumn sees the start of the ‘Rutting’ season where the stags and bucks bellow in an attempt to attract female does and hinds. (Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
Gary Clement’s Summer Stories: Rhymes With Animals
This summer, National Post cartoonist Gary Clement will be taking his inspiration from your summer stories. We asked readers to submit their best summer tales. Here is the next instalment of this series.
