LONDON ZOO KEAS
NOTORIOUSLY DESTRUCTIVE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO CAGE fFROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT] IvOXDOX, Feb. 16 It is related by a specialist who writes about the London Zoo and its inmates that the three kea parrotsnicknamed Athos. Porthos and Aramis —refuse to be patriotic by avoiding waste. These "three musketeers" of the Parrot House are notoriously destruo tive, and tree stumps placed in the cage to give them scope for their chewing activities have always been reduced to hollow shells within a few days. Last week the carpenter had to be called in to carry out extensive repairs because thev had chewed away so much of the door leading to their sleeping quarters that they could no longer be shut in at night, and had eaten away the wooden foundations round the vires separating: tliem from their neighHours so effectively that they were nearly in a position to pay calls on these neighbours. / These three keas are the most playful inmates of the Parrtit House, and also the rarest ?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23602, 11 March 1940, Page 4
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