Peepicheep and Reepicheep

      Meet one of the very rare pairs of fraternal twin canaries who survived hatching together from a single egg and grew into a pair of beautiful, if slightly small, birds.

      The hen, Peepicheep, on the left, sang almost as well as a male canary when she felt like it, and was among the smartest birds I have ever known. Her brother Reepicheep adored babies and actively participated in incubating his hen's eggs - a tactic rarely heard of in the world of canary males. Their colour is known as non-intensive bronze.

      They were both fairly old when this photo was taken, but they left far more behind them than just memories when they left this life. Some things are for forever.

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