The big snakes had been coiled into trash cans. The male billy goats were holed up in the rabbit exhibit. But it was the flamingos of Zoo World in Panama City Beach, Fla., who would ultimately become overnight celebrities after a video posted on social media during Hurricane Isaias made the rounds.
It has been viewed nearly 2 million times. The 30 flamingos, honking and frolicking, were sheltering in a bathroom, bumbling between the sink and the stalls, shedding pink feathers onto a grippy floor mat. The crew included Mr. Sparklepants, 10, the largest and most dominant of the flock.
Scuttle and Mango Shrimproll, both 3, who had been raised by a Zoo World zookeeper since they were eggs, were also there. The cramped quarters for the pink birds were necessary to protect them from ferocious winds that threatened the enclosure where they normally sleep. So the flock of flamingos, known as a flamboyance, was ushered into the bathroom, whose block...
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