What you should know
- Skinny, the famous owl of New York City, He died from traumatic impact, zoologists confirmed a day after he reportedly crashed into a building. Experts were going to conduct more tests to determine if the eagle owl may have been sick.
- What happened in the last hours of Flaco is the most important thing for his fans all over the city, who followed him as he survived on his own despite a life in captivity. Police are still looking to arrest who he let it out from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo a year ago.
- The necropsy found that Flaco was in good physical shape, managing to capture prey even though he had no hunting experience because he arrived at the zoo as a novice 13 years earlier. According to the necropsy report released Saturday, the owl weighed 1.89 kilograms (4.1 pounds), just 2% less than the last time it was measured at the zoo.
NEW YORK — Skinny, the famous owl of New York City, He died from traumatic impact, zoologists confirmed a day after he reportedly crashed into a building. Experts were going to conduct more tests to determine if the eagle owl may have been sick.
What happened in the last hours of Flaco is the most important thing for his fans all over the city, who followed him as he survived on his own despite a life in captivity. Police are still looking to arrest who he let it out from its enclosure at the Central Park Zoo a year ago.
The necropsy found that Flaco was in good physical shape, managing to capture prey even though he had no hunting experience because he arrived at the zoo as a novice 13 years earlier. According to the necropsy report released Saturday, the owl weighed 1.89 kilograms (4.1 pounds), just 2% less than the last time it was measured at the zoo.
Flaco was found dead Friday on a sidewalk after apparently crashing into a building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“The primary impact appears to have been to the body, as there was substantial hemorrhage under the sternum and in the posterior part of the body cavity around the liver,” the report said.
The Central Park Zoo placed the blame squarely on the person who opened Skinny’s enclosure. But they are investigating illness as a possible factor and plan to issue an update in about two weeks.
“This will include microscopic examination of tissue samples; toxicology testing to evaluate possible exposures to rodenticides or other toxins; and testing for infectious diseases such as West Nile virus and avian influenza,” the zoo statement said.
Praise from her fans poured in over the weekend. So did speculation about which of the many urban threats to wildlife may have contributed to his death.
Flaco fans who heard his late-night sounds on the Upper West Side reported that he had gone quiet in the days before his death and theorized that he may have been ill.
2024-02-26 14:49:11
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