first get a male and female, get them to mate and have lots of baby blue ducks, sounds easy, but to give the lady more choice give her two males to chose from, sounds fair? well I thought so, but then nature threw the blue ducks a curve, the two males got on so well that they decided to let their species go extinct!
keepers at a bird sanctuary in West Sussex hoped that the last remaining female Blue Duck in the country - called Cherry - might mate with either of the drakes, Ben or Jerry, but neither male duck appeared interested and are now inseparable at the Arundel Wetland Centre, leaving Cherry to her own devices, centre warden Paul Stevens said he was disappointed that efforts to produce new Blue Duck offspring had failed but said the two male birds made "a lovely couple", "They stay together all the time, parading up and down their enclosure and whistling to each other as a male might do with a female he wants to mate with," he said,
Blue ducks originate from New Zealand but there were thought to be just three birds in the UK.
well no wonder they are going extinct then!
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