Wednesday, June 29, 2005
I Think We're in Kansas, Toto
The RBR doubts that these two escapees will be hard to miss on the Kansas prairies.
Sedgwick County Zoo officials are searching for two adult flamingos that flew away from the zoo Monday afternoon. They're asking for the public's help in capturing the birds, which they think have become disoriented and unable to find their way back to the zoo. The birds were last spotted by zoo officials at 9 p.m. Monday, but darkness prevented the search from continuing.
Normally, the flight feathers of these flamingos are clipped to prevent them from flying. The entire flamingo flock at the zoo has been through two rounds of clipping over the past two months. However, zoo officials said that the flight feathers of these two particular birds had not completely grown in. Therefore, they had not yet been clipped.
Zoo officials said the flamingos are not aggressive but are wary of humans. Approaching the birds could cause them to take flight, which could result in possible injury or further disorientation.
Bird agrees that the flamingos are not aggressive and adds that there is a species specific memory from early in the last century that makes them wary of humans. They were tired of having their feathers pulled out to go on women's hats. At least today the drag queens who wear pink feathers are environmentally conscious enough to use fake feathers.
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