The Odd Couple

One day a couple of years ago, retiree Dominic Ehrler met Maria while walking around a manmade lake at Echo Park in Los Angeles, California, and the two became inseparable. Now, people fall in love all the time, but this is an unusual love story of sorts. You see, Maria is a goose:

The story doesn't end there. A year ago, the city of Los Angeles embarked on a project to drain the lake at Echo Park and Maria the Goose had to be moved to the Los Angeles Zoo. Grrlscientist over at The Guardian has more on the story of Dominic and Maria (including a gender bender shocker about Maria and a sweet update from Dominic himself): Link