Queer Ducks!

I've written before about Germany's fabulous gay penguin couple, but if you needed any more evidence of Europe's more liberal attitudes toward gay wildlife, here's another prime example: The Australian reports on a pair of male ducks that have returned a park in southern Sweden during mating season. A city wildlife official stated that, "they act exactly like a couple (composed) of a man and woman, the bigger one always defending the smaller duck."

Rumors that the ducks are fleeing persecution from their home, Vatican City, have not yet been substantiated.