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Flamingo escapes British zoo, flies over nearby farm
(Thanks to John Lobert, who says "When it’s a S L O W news day in England.")
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Slow news day? It's a farm. If there are animals there, there WILL be flies all over it, so not my fault.
Posted by: the flamingo | January 26, 2023 at 12:19 PM
The Minnesota Zoo has flamingos as well.
Apparently you have to trim their feathers periodically to keep them from flying away.
This point was driven home one day when one of the zoo keepers found the foot of one of the flamingos in the Komodo Dragon's cage.
Posted by: JG | January 26, 2023 at 01:18 PM
I'm gobsmacked.
Posted by: JerrySTL | January 26, 2023 at 01:28 PM
@JG Are you saying that I failed to keep a leg up against the many threats here in the zoo & fell asleep on the wrong leg awakening on the wrong side of the bars?
Posted by: Hoppy (the flamingo) | January 26, 2023 at 01:30 PM
Since you brought up the subject of flying, I want to recount a story that appeared in a Dave Barry column from years and years ago. It went something like this, and the names have been changed cause I cannot remember what they were. So here goes:
"A jumbo jet airliner crashed into a cemetery just outside of Paris. Emergency response workers recovered 11,000 bodies."
At least I got the 11,000 bodies right. Thanks Dave for one of those things that will be stuck in my demented brain to the very end.
Posted by: Pullet Surprise | January 26, 2023 at 02:42 PM
The flamingo in the photo looks like it's trying to see what it just stepped in.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 26, 2023 at 03:47 PM