A Scottish man has become the latest victim of the cunning ways of our animal foes.
An egg: the birthplace of winged kleptomaniacs.
The man, who asked not to be named, said of the incident:
My passport is somewhere out there in Fiordland. The kea’s probably using it for fraudulent claims or something. I’ll never look at a Kea in the same way.
The parrot, of the infamous Kea variety, made off into the bushes with the document after lifting it from the unsuspecting man’s bag while the driver was looking through the luggage compartment.
In addition to identity theft, the kea parrot also has a reputation for vandalising rubber objects such as windscreen wipers.
Police say that neither the passport nor the parrot are likely to be recovered from the dense forests, which is sure to worsen the alarmingly low number of convictions attained for crimes by animals.
via: Guardian
