An Unlikely Romance

Scientists are scratching their heads over an extraordinary friendship between Patroclo, a male donkey and Achille, a bull. The inseparable pair have developed an unusually affectionate relationship, spending their days together, nuzzling and displaying behaviour rarely documented between different species. Researchers are studying the bond to understand how animals form relationships beyond their own kind. The two seem entirely unconcerned by the scientific attention. Love, apparently, knows no boundaries, although one suspects the donkey and the bull would prefer everyone to mind their own business.