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You're listening to shortwave from NPR. Hello world, this is your host Salina Simmons Duffin and I'm here with exclusive news just in time for Valentine's Day.

You may have heard of gay penguins at the Central Park Zoo, the heartwarming story of how

two male penguins parented a baby penguin became an award-winning

and often banned children's book called Antango Makes Three.

Well, at the National Zoo here inC. there is a new it couple.

For more, we turn to shortwave producer Margaret Serino on the scene.

Marge.

Right now I'm standing in the small mammal house at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.

Looking at an arboreal anteater named Cayenne.

A few years ago, the zoo got Cay Kayenne paired her with another antider named

Manny and these two hit it off from the start they were wrestling for days

cuddling licking each other know, showing all of these typical grooming breeding

behaviors, but Cayenne's weight was never changing. It seems like she was never getting pregnant.

So they roped in a fertility specialist,

and they pretty quickly figured out that the reason was because

Cayenne was a male and had testes instead of ovaries.

This did not stop Manny and Kaye

from spending hours or even days wrestling with each other.

You know, sometimes it would look like Manny would be

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