25 flamingos killed by a wild fox at National Zoo
The birds are “American flamingos,” best known for their pink color and standing on one leg. The zoo said a Northern pintail duck was also killed by the fox and three other flamingos were hurt and were being treated at the zoo’s veterinary hospital.
In the wild, flamingos can fly away from danger, but the zoo’s flamingos had their wings clipped and were probably unable to defend themselves against the fox, zoo officials said. Dan Rauch, the city’s wildlife biologist, said a flamingo to a fox is “like a chicken with longer legs and a different color.” The fox, he said, was probably attracted to the flamingos because they’re “just a taller bird for them, and they’re an enclosed food source.”“Turkeys in the wild can move away” from a predator, Rauch said, “and so can ducks. But these guys are kind of stuck.”
The flamingo killings mark the first time there has been a “predator mesh breach” at their exhibit since it was set up in the 1970s, but the fox was not the first zoo intruder. In 2002, the zoo lost several ducks and other birds that were in more-open areas of the campus, after predators came in from Rock Creek Park.
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