Three cheers for our fine feathered friends! Here's a look at strange news stories involving parrots, chickens and other flapping creatures.
Two gay vultures at a Jerusalem zoo have not only broken up, they've gone straight. Both Dashik and Yehuda are now dads, according to Haaretz.com.
Who says China isn't a bastion for Civil Liberties? At least their gay penguins can marry.
Brazilian airport authorities stopped a man attempting to smuggle 200 canaries in a bag, 65 of which were dead.
Max, a five-year-old African Grey, mimics car alarms and cell phone rings, but local school children have given him s playground vocabulary that has zoo keeper Peter Hansom confounded. "Sometimes he will just say 'hello' or 'bye', but as often as not it's 'f*** off'."
Luckily, the penguins had formal attire.
Six mallard ducklings fell into a storm drain in Gosforth, Newcastle. The mother duck couldn’t fit through the grate, so she walked along the path of the sewer pipe, following the sounds of duckling cries -- and rescued her babies.
A family of swans has become quite the stars in Perranporth, England, where motorists and pedestrians report seeing them use the crosswalk as they make their way to and from a local lake.
Cosmetic surgery is not just for humans. A bald eagle shot three years ago by a poacher has received a much needed beak job.
Yosuke - a parrot in Japan - flew out of his cage. Luckily, he'd learned to recite his address and told a veterinarian where he lived.
Scientists have caught on tape an Antarctic fur seal trying to have sex with a king penguin -- and it wasn't consensual.
