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‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 2 Nov 2026, 16:53 UTC. The headline in use is “‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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Patroclo and Achille’s interspecies affair sheds new light on social and sexual relations between animals, scientists say In ancient myth, Achilles and Patroclus were two Greek heroes of the Trojan war whose intense bond was believed by some to have turned into a sexual relationship.
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‘It’s really, really unusual’: tender bond between male donkey and bull baffles scientists
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