Zookeepers Protect Birds During Hurricane by Housing Them in the BATHROOM

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Credit: SWNS / John Brueggen

This bizarre footage shows huge birds on an animal sanctuary being housed in the bathrooms of the farm to protect them from the high winds caused by Hurricane Ian.

Footage shows two enormous cranes - and a large stork named 'Oldman' - sheltering in the bathrooms alongside their food to protect them from being injured.

Hurricane Ian passed over St. Augustine Alligator Farm, Florida, USA, on Thursday and Friday, leaving much of the area damaged due to floods.

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Transcript
00:00 We made it! Thank you, thank you.
00:02 So what do you think when you walk into a bathroom and see this?
00:06 Here you go, water, comfortable perch, plenty of food.
00:11 This will be where our cranes are going to survive for the storm this year.
00:18 What craziness is going on here but storks in a bathroom.
00:23 So this is a nice secure building.
00:26 Come on out of there.
00:28 We are locking the stork up in the bathroom because it's secure and we don't have to put
00:35 them in a crate which would make it more uncomfortable.
00:38 It's uncomfortable for maybe a keeper.
00:40 Yeah.
00:42 But this is exactly how we keep them secure.
00:45 So here we are, storks in a bathroom and that is a great way to protect them from the
00:53 storm and easy cleanup for us at the end of it all.

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