LONDON (AFP) - A pair of gay flamingos have adopted an abandoned chick, becoming parents after being together for six years, a British conservation organisation said Monday.

Carlos and Fernando had been desperate to start a family, even chasing other flamingos from their nests to take over their eggs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) in Slimbridge near Bristol.

But their egg-sitting prowess made them the top choice for taking an unhatched egg under their wings when one of the Greater Flamingo nests was abandoned.

The couple, together for six years, can feed chicks by producing milk in their throats.

jay: i didn’t even need to pun the headline, the afp did it for me. nicely done, afp. also, throat milk? gay flamingos have breasts in their throats? weird. wait, i thought only mammals lactated. so female mammals and gay english flamingos? help.

cates: maybe it’s some variant of man-milk.

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