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(New York, New York) – Flaco the Owl, the bird who was on the run from the Central Park Zoo for more than a year is being remembered in a number of ways. The American Museum of Natural History says they’ll hold Flaco’s wings and some tissue samples. The rest of him will be handed over to the Bronx Zoo. The famed bird died earlier this year after flying into a building.
Police are still investigating who shredded the mesh on his enclosure at the Central Park Zoo on Feb. 3nd 2023, which set him free. As of Tuesday, about 5,300 people had signed an online petition requesting a life-size statue of Flaco to be placed in Central Park. About 60,000 had signed one urging the police and the conservation society to pick back up the investigation into who vandalized his enclosure. The society announced in March that a necropsy by Bronx Zoo pathologists had found enough rat poison and pigeon virus in Flaco’s system to kill him even if he had not died after slamming into an Upper West Side building.
