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Swan’s rebound fling doesn’t work out

New love turns out to be a cad of a cob; she’ll try to reconcile with boat

Image: Petra the swan and paddleboat
Frank Augstein / AP file
Petra flaps next to her “partner,” a swan-shaped paddleboat (name not given) in a lake at a zoo in Muenster, Germany, on March 9, 2007.
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updated 3:16 p.m. ET March 26, 2008

BERLIN - Petra the swan has a new home and so does her beloved swan-shaped paddleboat.

In 2006, Petra, a black swan, became so attached to the boat — shaped like an outsized white swan — that she refused to leave its side at a lake near a zoo in the German city of Muenster.

Petra and her paddleboat were taken to the zoo.

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Zoo officials finally parted bird and boat last week after Petra settled down with a real white swan and the boat was returned to the lake. But the romance was short-lived. The zoo says that, on Saturday, her new beau flew off and sought out the company of other black swans.

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A zoo statement says that Petra "appears to feel lonely" and is swimming around in an agitated state. The solution? On Friday, she will be taken back to the nearby lake and her faithful paddleboat.

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