Zoo visitors frighten rare bird to death
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A RARE peacock has been found dead at a zoo in southwest China’s Yunnan Province after visitors pulled out its feathers. Vets say it died of fright.
A breeder discovered the blue peafowl’s body, with some of its feathers missing, during the Lunar New Year holiday at the Yunnan Wild Animal Park in Kunming, Li Youlong, head of the zoo’s animal management department, said yesterday.
Despite warning signs, many visitors to the zoo over the seven-day holiday tried to take hold of birds and animals, Li said, and zoo workers had to step in frequently to stop physical contact.
It is difficult to get close to the free-ranging peafowl, but people managed to catch them using food as bait, he said.
Photos posted online showed a man laughing while holding the peafowl as a woman pulled feathers from the bird.
The blue peafowl, also known as the Indian peafowl, features on the Red List of Threatened Species kept by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Its tail feathers are particularly beautiful.
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