Hungry Pelican Gets a Stomach Full of Cell Phone
August 9, 2009 · Print This Article
A pelican looking for a tasty snack swallowed a cell phone at the Tauphaus Park Zoo in Idaho Falls last week.
Visitors saw a flock of pelicans playing with a cell phone and reported it to zoo officials, but by the time they got there, one of the pelicans had swallowed it. They couldn’t tell which one was the culprit, so they almost x-rayed the entire flock.
Apparently, all that metal and plastic didn’t agree with the curious pelican’s stomach, because it soon coughed it up.
“Luckily the bird regurgitated it so it wouldn’t harm him,” zoo superintendent Bill Gersonde told Idaho Falls’ KIDK News. “We just need folks to be really cautious when they’re in the zoo and remember that they’re guests in the animals’ homes and they need to keep their personal belongings as close to them as possible.”
What kind of dumbass throws their cell phone into a zoo enclosure?
Link [LA Times Blog]
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
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