Zoologists determine Flaco’s death cause.-2

NEW YORK (Associated Press) — A day after it was reported that Flaco, the celebrity owl of New York City, flew into a building, zoologists confirmed that Flaco had died as a result of a traumatic hit. Additional testing is supposed to be conducted in order to discover whether or not the Eurasian eagle-owl may have been unwell.




Fans from all around the city are keeping the events that transpired during Flaco’s dying hours at the forefront of their minds. They cheered him on as he defied the odds by fending for himself despite having spent his whole existence in prison. Despite the passage of a year, the authorities are still looking for the person who let him to escape from his enclosure in the Central Park Zoo.On Friday, Flaco’s body was discovered on a sidewalk following what appears to have been a collision with a building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

According to the findings of the necropsy, Flaco had been in good physical condition. He had been successful in capturing prey despite the fact that he had no prior experience hunting due to the fact that he had arrived at the zoo as a young bird thirteen years previously. The necropsy report that was made public on Saturday stated that the owl weighed 1.89 kilos (4.1 pounds), which is only 2% less than the weight that he had been measured at the zoo the previous time.

“The primary impact appears to have been to the body,” the report stated. “There was substantial hemorrhage under the sternum and in the back of the body cavity around the liver,” the report added.




At the Central Park Zoo, the individual who was responsible for cutting open Flaco’s enclosure was given full responsibility. However, they are looking into the possibility that illness was a contributing cause, and they want to provide an update in around two weeks.

According to the statement released by the zoo, “This will include testing for infectious diseases such as West Nile Virus and Avian Influenza; toxicology tests to evaluate potential exposures to rodenticides or other toxins; and this will include microscopic examination of tissue samples.”

Over the course of the weekend, benedictions from his admirers flooded in. On the other hand, conjecture about which of the numerous urban dangers to wildlife might have been responsible for his passing also occurred.




Fans of Flaco who lived on the Upper West Side and listened to his nightly hooting in made the observation that he had become quiet in the days leading up to his passing, and they speculated that he might have been sick.