Flamingos hunker down at Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg throughout Hurricane Ian.
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A bunch of flamingos obtained a leg up on Hurricane Ian — by hunkering down in a girls room at a botanical backyard in St. Petersburg.
“Our animals are secure w/workers on website to see them via the storm,” Sunken Gardens stated in a tweet Wednesday. “The flamingos are having a hurricane get together within the lavatory; consuming, consuming, & dancing.”
The picture of the Chilean flamingos huddling collectively in entrance of restroom stalls on the roadside attraction because the storm slammed into the Sunshine State rapidly went viral.
“It was simply primarily for our members and folk that observe us,” supervising director Dwayne Biggs instructed the Tampa Bay Tribune. “It’s gone all around the nation.”
Animals at Sunken Gardens typically climate storms in one other hurricane-proof constructing on the website, however the workers determined to take additional precautions with Ian and ushered them to the primary constructing, the newspaper reported.
The pink birds congregated inside the ladies’s powder room subsequent to the primary foyer.
“Really it’s fairly near what you'll design for an animal-holding in a single day facility,” Biggs instructed the Tampa Bay Tribune on Thursday. “And it was the proper measurement for our 21 flamingos.”
He added, chuckling: “We’re going to sterilize and clear it afterwards. We’ll be transferring them out very first thing tomorrow morning.”
Different animals at Sunken Gardens had been equally moved inside because the storm barreled in, the paper reported.
Macaws, Amazon parrots, cockatoos and a kookaburra from Australia had been all moved to a classroom, however the flamingos required particular consideration.
“There’s a particular method to hold them safely,” Biggs instructed the outlet. “Their legs are very delicate, so there’s a sure approach to seize the legs and tuck them beneath and type of cuddle them…That took a while.”
As they snuggled collectively, the birds snacked on flamingo-formulated pellets and Biggs checked up on them all through the storm.
“I‘m glad we posted that,” Biggs instructed the paper in regards to the picture of the birds. “It’s type of supplied a bit of little bit of breath of air right here after this storm.”
One of many individuals who reacted to the publish wrote: “Awww. So comfortable to see animals and wildlife taken to shelter earlier than storm. I’m a hurricane Sandy of the Jersey Shore ‘type of survivor’ as solely our lives had been saved and people of our pets. All the things else and I imply the whole lot, gone.”
The picture was harking back to different photos of flamingos sheltering in bogs, together with one in all them inside a males’s restroom on the Miami Metrozoo (now Zoo Miami) in 1998 throughout Hurricane Georges and an analogous group on the zoo the next yr throughout Hurricane Floyd.
St. Petersburg was hit with hurricane-force winds and heavy rains throughout the storm, however appeared to have been largely spared the worst results of the storm.
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