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douglas9

(4,358 posts)
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 06:12 AM Mar 2022

Pink Floyd, the Kansas zoo fugitive flamingo, seen on the Texas coast

A fugitive flamingo that escaped a Kansas zoo over a decade ago was spotted on the Texas coast on March 10, according to officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. TPWD stated in a post that the flamingo, Pink Floyd, was spotted at Rhodes Point in Cox Bay near Port Lavaca in early March.

"Looks like Pink Floyd has returned from the 'dark side of the moon'," TPWD wrote in its post on Friday, March 25.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Pink-Floyd-flamingo-escaped-Texas-17033789.php

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article333814/Flamingo-that-escaped-from-Kansas-zoo-in-2005-is-spotted-gallivanting-in-Texas.html

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Pink Floyd, the Kansas zoo fugitive flamingo, seen on the Texas coast (Original Post) douglas9 Mar 2022 OP
Go baby, go! Surprising too, being that a lot of animals in captivity are unable to survive SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #1
Not At All modrepub Mar 2022 #3
ok SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #4
I will be about 5 miles from Pink Floyd this morning. texasfiddler Mar 2022 #2
We had a Pink Floyd in Utah for over 20 years. ❤️ GentryDixon Mar 2022 #5
Fugitive flamingo thriving in Texas 17 years after escaping Kansas zoo (3.31.2022) douglas9 Mar 2022 #6

SWBTATTReg

(21,856 posts)
1. Go baby, go! Surprising too, being that a lot of animals in captivity are unable to survive
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 08:01 AM
Mar 2022

outside captivity, hence why so many are still in captivity. They would die.

This is a neat story.

modrepub

(3,467 posts)
3. Not At All
Tue Mar 29, 2022, 09:08 AM
Mar 2022

That's like claiming man can teach a bird to fly. We shouldn't be surprised when an animal does what an animal has been born to do. It's hardwired into their DNA.

douglas9

(4,358 posts)
6. Fugitive flamingo thriving in Texas 17 years after escaping Kansas zoo (3.31.2022)
Thu Mar 31, 2022, 05:40 AM
Mar 2022

It was a blustery evening in central Kansas in 2005 when the flamingos saw a chance to make their jailbreak.

The Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita was in the process of clipping the wings of a flock of the exotic birds to keep them from flying away. But when strong gusts of wind blew through, two birds waiting for their turn discovered they could get enough lift to escape captivity once and for all.

“It is a black eye, to be honest,” Scott Newland, then the zoo’s curator of birds, told the Wichita Eagle in 2013. “It was basically an error. We are not fond of this story.”

Seventeen years later, one of the fugitive flamingos — nicknamed Pink Floyd for his (or her?) pink and white hues — appears to have turned up in a bay near Port Lavaca on Texas’s Gulf Coast, calmly meandering along the shore as seagulls putter around nearby.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/03/30/fugitive-flamingo-spotted-texas/


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/us/flamingo-escape-kansas-texas.html

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