A peacock from the Central Park Zoo escaped on Tuesday and made a temporary home on a Fifth Avenue windowsill. The bird decided to fly home Wednesday morning, ending the increasingly familiar saga of escaped zoo animals on big-city adventures.
Like his predecessors, the Bronx Zoo cobra and peahen, the peacock had at least two Twitter accounts set up in his name: @BirdOnTheTown and @CentralPeacock. For zoo animals on the run, having their escapade play out on Twitter is seemingly a requirement. But who’s helping the liberated zoo animals with their tweets?
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