Bird Brains
1 January 2009Rare bird, spooked by fireworks, thrashes itself to deathby Don Jordon at the Palm Beach Post
Workers at the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation doing a routine morning check-up today discovered a dead red-browed Amazon parrot with severe head and face injuries.
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Reillo said the birds and other animals always get spooked by the fireworks, but this is the first time an animal has reacted so violently.We're doing everything we can to save these species and the lack of enforcement on fireworks regulations is basically undoing our best efforts,he said.In the middle of the night, they're not expecting blasts and fireworks and gunshots. It's getting worse every year.
(Underscore mine.) Plainly, these folk were not doing everything that they could. There was an established problem of the animals being spooked by the fireworks, but no one was there to care for the animals during a time that fireworks were to be expected. The staff failed grossly, but they're pointing their fingers away from themselves. I don't know whether they're just too stupid to recognize their own failure, or proceed now from a lack of integrity.
Tags: everyday horrors
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