A fugitive flamingo that escaped from a Kansas zoo 17 years in the past was just lately noticed in Texas and given a cheeky nickname: Pink Floyd.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife’s coastal fisheries division shared a video on Fb of the uncommon discover earlier this week.
“Seems to be like Pink Floyd has returned from the ‘darkish facet the of [the] moon’!” the group wrote. “Noticed at Rhodes Level in Cox Bay close to Port Lavaca by David Foreman on March 10. Pink Floyd is a neighborhood Texas flamingo that escaped a Kansas zoo in 2005 and has been seen on the Texas coast for a number of years.”
The video has collected greater than 124,000 views, by far the most well-liked clip on the Coastal Fisheries – Texas Parks and Wildlife Fb web page.
In keeping with The New York Times, Pink Floyd is an African flamingo whose authorized identify is No. 492. (The hen’s intercourse is unknown.) It was a part of a flock of 40 flamingos that had been imported from Tanzania to the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan., in the summertime of 2003 for a flamingo exhibit that opened the next Could.
As a result of Pink Floyd arrived in Kansas as an grownup (in all probability round 3 years previous), the zoo workers determined it might be unethical to amputate a part of its wing to forestall it from flying. Grownup flamingos are as an alternative stored grounded by having their feathers clipped. However staffers forgot to clip Pink Floyd’s feathers, and on a windy day in June 2005, the hen escaped its enclosure together with a companion, No. 347.
Each fugitives quickly went their separate methods, with No. 347 final being noticed in Michigan’s Au Prepare Lake in August 2005. Pink Floyd, in the meantime, headed south and befriended a Caribbean flamingo. The 2 had been seen together as just lately as 2013.
“Although they’re two totally different species, they’re sufficient alike that they’d have been very happy to see one another,” Scott Newland, curator of birds on the Sedgwick County Zoo, informed The New York Occasions in 2018. “They’re two lonely birds in type of a international habitat. They are not alleged to be there, in order that they have stayed collectively as a result of there is a bond.”
Pink Floyd is believed to be about 27 years previous, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram studies. Experts say the birds can stay as much as 30 years within the wild.
At press time, No. 492 might be heard complaining that it was not included on the up to date cowl of Pink Floyd’s A Momentary Lapse of Purpose.
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