A little humor to wrap up the week with:
You can't say they didn't try.
After an impressive 115 years together, two giant turtles at an Austrian zoo are refusing to share their cage anymore, the Austrian Times reported Friday.
"We get the feeling they can't stand the sight of each other anymore," said Helga Happ, director of the Klagenfurt-based zoo, where the turtles -- Bibi, the female and Poldi, the male -- have lived for the last 36 years. Before that, they called Basel Zoo in Switzerland home.
According to the paper, zoo staff realized something was amiss when Bibi bit off a chunk of her partner's shell. When the attacks continued, Poldi was moved to another cage.
Animal experts even attempted couples' counseling -- feeding the turtles aphrodisiacs and encouraging them to play games together. But so far, efforts have failed to bring the shelled lovers back together. -- HuffPo
2 Comments
It sounds a lot like the male turtle may have decided to be faithful to his true self, after one-hundred-and- fifteen-years of living a lie, but the female turtle is just a spiteful "homophobe.” How dare she lash out at her one time companion just because he had the courage to come out?
He was born that way!
Turtle domestic violence and divorce.