No Joke: Parrot in Bangkok Swallows 21 Diamonds After Raiding Owner’s Jewellery Box
AsiaOne | June 24, 2021 | Amierul Rashid
Polly want a safecracker?
On Tuesday (June 22), Frosty, a pet parrot in Bangkok, Thailand, raided its owner’s jewellery box and appeared to be enamoured of what it had found inside.
A diamond necklace caught the bird’s eye and that spelt trouble — Frosty decided to gobble the sparkly jewels up for breakfast.
By lunchtime, the eight-month-old sun parakeet looked weak and had lost its appetite.
Noticing something was off, the bird’s owner quickly brought it to the nearby Animal Space Hospital for an X-ray.
(The Animal Space Hospital doesn’t actually sound like it’s all that nearby.)
The operation took over two hours and vets recovered 21 diamonds, each around 0.2 carats, that the bird pecked from the woman’s necklace.
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