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Stork Detained As Spy In Egypt Found Dead
"Zey call heem...Ze Schtork"! Mahmoud Hassib, the head of Egypt's southern protected areas, said Saturday that local residents found the dead bird on an island in the Nile, south of the ancient city of Aswan. Dead storks tell no secrets. Then again, neither do live ones... In August, a local resident found the stork in Egypt's Qena governorate, some 450 kilometers (280 miles) southeast of Cairo. Both he and police were suspicious of the European wildlife tracker found on it. Authorities later let the bird go. "Okay.You can go." "QUACK!" "Hey, wait a minute..." However, controversy trails the bird into death. An Egyptian wildlife organization claimed on its Facebook page the bird was "eaten by local villagers." Hassib denied that the bird had been eaten, though he didn't know an exact cause of death. Urp... Posted by: Fred 2013-09-08 |
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