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Peacock refuses to leave ‘long time partner’ after its death
A viral video on the Internet captured the moment a peacock followed two men who were carrying its dead partner away.
The video featured the peacock, which was said to have lived with its partner for four years, refusing to let go of it even after its death.
When two men carried the carcass of the peacock’s partner, it quietly followed them to the ‘funeral.’
Indian Forest Service Officer, Parveen Kaswan, who shared the “touching video” on his Twitter handle, said he received the clip over WhatsApp.
The 19-second-long video got many viewers commenting on the peacock’s “heart touching” gesture.
“Animals have more love and affection for each other than humans. This is what the entire nature and its being is all about,” one viewer wrote.
Mr Kaswan often shared videos of wildlife on his social media handle to make humans aware of how animals behave.
Recently, he shared a horrifying video of a leopard jumping over the locked gate of a residential property to attack a dog. –Ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
