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Village Celebrates New Married Couple
POSTED: 10:41 am EDT June 14, 2004
UPDATED: 11:02 am EDT June 14, 2004
There was a big celebration in a village in northern Thailand last weekend 
for a new married couple. 
Slideshow: Water Buffalo Get Hitched


Boopan and Meegnu, two water buffalos, were married in a rice field. They 
were united in a special ceremony that included guests from the human and buffalo 
communities. 
An official from Thailand's Livestock Department was on hand to sign papers, 
registering the nuptials. 
Water buffalo were a key animal in the economy of the Thai countryside for 
centuries. Most Thai farmers now use machinery but the animals are still 
important to villagers. 
The two animals came from different villages and had not met before last 
Saturday. 
This is not the first time animals in Thailand have wed. 
In recent years, elephants have gotten married on Valentine's Day and two 
orangutans had a huge wedding in 1996.

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