NEW YORK, N.Y. – A peacock with a sense of adventure – and a good sense of direction – has flown back home to New York’s Central Park Zoo.
On Tuesday, humans flocked and tweeted as the peacock left the zoo for a perch on a Fifth Avenue window ledge. It had good taste: A condo there reportedly sold for $22.5 million in 2009.
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Zookeepers predicted the handsome green and blue bird would make its way home – and it did just before 7 a.m. local time Wednesday.
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It’s been a rebellious season in the city zoos.
In March, an Egyptian cobra was found nearly a week after it went missing at the Bronx Zoo’s Reptile House. Two months later, a zoo peahen was recovered at a nearby auto-body shop.
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