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The Agora => UK & World News => Topic started by: TonyKath on Sunday, 27 September, 2015 @ 19:52:33
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Gloucester cops corner a wallaby, but in one bound it escapes!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-34373341
Tony
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There's a few about, on the Staffs/Derbyshire border there's a wild colony (http://www.roaches.org.uk/wallabies.htm).
Also others, e.g.
Posted 19 December, 2014:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpNEkiydp-w
Posted 02 August, 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk_cw5TQWgs
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And there's more...
South American bird rhea found in front garden in Hampshire
A rhea has been rescued by police, fire crews and a specialist animal management team after a householder in Hampshire found the large bird in his garden.
Police were called at 12.30pm on Thursday when the man found the rhea in the front garden of his home in North Boarhunt.
It is not known how the bird, nicknamed Snowflake, came to be in the garden, and it has not yet been claimed
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/south-american-bird-rhea-found-in-hampshire-homes-front-garden
North Boarhunt... oh well, at least they didn't call it Chris.
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And there's more...
South American bird rhea found in front garden in Hampshire
A rhea has been rescued by police, fire crews and a specialist animal management team after a householder in Hampshire found the large bird in his garden.
Police were called at 12.30pm on Thursday when the man found the rhea in the front garden of his home in North Boarhunt.
It is not known how the bird, nicknamed Snowflake, came to be in the garden, and it has not yet been claimed
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/south-american-bird-rhea-found-in-hampshire-homes-front-garden (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/02/south-american-bird-rhea-found-in-hampshire-homes-front-garden)
North Boarhunt... oh well, at least they didn't call it Chris.
It'd make a great Sunday lunch - but you'd need extra extra wide foil to wrap providing you had an oven big enough! ;)
Tony