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Large flightless bird closes Indiana highway
(MENAFN- Arab News) PERU Indiana: Police say a large flightless bird forced the closing of a northern Indiana highway for about 10 minutes while officers and motorists tried to corral it.
The 5-foot-tall bird called a rhea escaped from a farm Monday and ran onto US 24 near Peru about 80 miles north of Indianapolis. Rheas are native to South America and similar to ostriches and emus.
State Police 1st Sgt. Bob Burgess tells the Kokomo Tribune (http://bit.ly/1nKXlcz ) an animal control officer shot the bird with a tranquilizer dart but the bird fled into traffic. Meanwhile officers contacted the previous owner of the bird who arrived on the scene and was able to tackle it.
Burgess says the previous owner loaded the bird into a pickup truck and returned it to its new owner.
The 5-foot-tall bird called a rhea escaped from a farm Monday and ran onto US 24 near Peru about 80 miles north of Indianapolis. Rheas are native to South America and similar to ostriches and emus.
State Police 1st Sgt. Bob Burgess tells the Kokomo Tribune (http://bit.ly/1nKXlcz ) an animal control officer shot the bird with a tranquilizer dart but the bird fled into traffic. Meanwhile officers contacted the previous owner of the bird who arrived on the scene and was able to tackle it.
Burgess says the previous owner loaded the bird into a pickup truck and returned it to its new owner.
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