21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Blind bisexual goose named Thomas who spent six years in a love triangle with two swans and helped raise 68 babies dies at the ripe old age of 40.

via dailymail:

• Thomas the bisexual goose died in a bird rehabilitation sanctuary aged 40

• He shunned females and shacked up with a male swan named Henry for 24 years

• When Henry mated with a young swan he helped raise 68 cygnets over six years 

• Henry died in 2009 and Thomas retired to the sanctuary when he went blind

• He will be buried next to his soulmate in the park they lived in for three decades 

Thomas the beloved bisexual goose who spent years in a love triangle with two swans as they raised 68 cygnets has died aged 40.

The exceptionally long-lived bird shunned the female geese in Waimanu Lagoon in Waikanae, north of Wellington, and instead chose a black swan named Henry.

The couple were inseparable for 24 years until a young female swan called Henrietta stole Henry’s heart, making Thomas the third wheel.