Fox kills 16 flamingos in Finland

[Donna]

A fox has broken into a zoo in Finland and killed an entire flock of 16 flamingos, officials at the zoo say.

The fox climbed over a fence at the Helsinki zoo to get into the flamingo pen overnight.

The zoo is on an island in the Finnish capital and the fox had apparently walked over ice to reach it.

An investigation was under way as to why the flamingos - which were normally brought inside overnight because of the cold - had been left out.

The zoo has 150 animal species and nearly 1,000 plant species.

How awful!


Found this too from 2007:

Four flamingos housed at Frankfurt zoo in Germany have been killed in an apparent attack by an intruder.

Three of the birds' heads had been torn from their bodies and a fourth bird had been strangled, zoo officials said.

"We cannot explain why someone would want to murder flamingos," spokeswoman Caroline Liefke told Reuters news agency. "It's a complete mystery."

Police are investigating the attack, which took place inside the flamingo enclosure after the zoo had closed.

Frankfurt zoo counts several flamingos in its collection, as well as larger animals such as lions, giraffes and numerous exotic birds and reptiles.

[Annette]

  

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