The 'unconventional' romance between a ram and a deer

The unlikely soulmates spice up life at a Chinese zoo with their interspecies love story

Chunzi the deer licks its love Changmao the ram: The couple's unlikely relationship started last year and has stayed strong despite the zoo's attempt to split them up.
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A dashing male sheep and a comely deer are being likened to Romeo and Juliet, but their forbidden love story takes place in a Chinese zoo, not Verona. Changmao, or Long Hair, the ram and Chunzi the doe met and fell in love at a wildlife park in southwest China last year, but it was this week that their love story made news, after handlers unsuccessfully attempted to separate the interspecies pair. Here, a brief guide to their "unconventional" romance:

So, how did they get together?

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