Monday, May 21, 2012

Racist birds? Black crows attack an albino counterpart...

It didn't share the same feathers and was branded an outcast.

On Sunday, residents of Adyar, out for a morning walk, rescued the outcast -- an albino crow that was being pecked by a group of black crows.

The crow tumbled off a tree top on the First Main Road of Gandhi Nagar near Kalakshetra.

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The species will not be able to hold out for long in the wild. "Its life span is low because black crows remain hostile to white crow as it looks different. So, the white crow will find it difficult to source food. Eight years ago, Vandalur zoo got a white crow rescued by residents in Tambaram and this crow would be the second one," said sources in the forest department. Full story...

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