Updates On 20th Mar 2014

PEACOCK’S FEET FROZE TO A PINE TREE!

A 5-year-old peacock named Blue was rescued by firefighters near Chicago, Illinois after he took flight from his heated enclosure and landed in a nearby pine tree.

The West Dundee Fire Department brought in a 100 foot ladder and Assistant Zoo Manager Kristin Wuestenfeld ascended the tree with them in the basket atop the ladder. She carefully worked to warm and release Blue’s feet which had frozen to the branch in the -12 stinging cold.

“The bird’s feet were pretty cold. We more or less warmed the feet, got his legs working again and now he’s under watch in another heated building for quarantine,” said Brian Mangiaracina of Randall Oaks’ Barnyard Zoo.

Blue, who was born at the zoo and has known no other home, will also receive antibiotics to prevent fluid from building up in his lungs.

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