Mates for life

Spring is coming! Everything we can hear is "love, love, love". We can see couples in the streets, parks, and even in our campus. But are we the only ones who experiment this "special" feeling? What about the animals?

Some biologists found out that not only turtledoves stay together for a long time, as the twelve days of christmass tale told us. There are some extraordinary animals' lifestyles that have inspired our culture through time.

A clear example of this are swans. As we all have watched in movies, they are always the symbols of pure and eternal love. This is consequence of their monogamy. Swans stay with the same partner for almost all their lifetime. Even in some cases they even comite suicide when their lover dies.

Birds aren't the only one faithful specie. Wolves are always related to the concept of betray and coldness. Which it is not closed to what their family's lifestyle is about. They stay in groups called packs that consist in a male and female and their offspring. It's very similar to how families are made in our society but their relationship is even more stable than a lot of humans have.

Maybe love is not a concept well-known by the animal kind but they are able to have a faithful and long term relationship. Do you know some other examples? Would you call their bounds “love”?

(Source: http://www.divinecaroline.com/33/94736-eight-animals-mate)