'Gay' elephant gets Polish politicians fuming
10 April 2009
A RIGHT-WING Polish politician has slammed his local zoo for buying a “gay” elephant.
Ninio, a 10-year-old African bull, seems to prefer male companions and thus may be unlikely to procreate.
"We didn't pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there," Michal Grzes, a conservative councillor in the city of Poznan in western Poland, was quoted as saying.
"We were supposed to have a herd, but as Ninio prefers male friends over females how will he produce offspring?" said Grzes, who is from the right-wing opposition Law and Justice party.
The head of the Poznan zoo said 10-year-old Ninio may be too young to decide whether he prefers males or females, as elephants only reach sexual maturity at 14.
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