Tuesday, February 21, 2006

H5N1 News: British Protect Legendary Black Ravens From Bird Flu




Mary Jordan writes in The Washington Post:

For 350 years, six coal-black ravens have wandered freely around the Tower of London's inner courtyard as cawing barometers of the monarchy's vitality. If the ravens ever die or leave the tower, the legend goes, the tower and the kingdom will fall.

Now the fear of bird flu has done what Nazi Luftwaffe bombings, winter blizzards, assassinations and abdications could not, forcing the ravens to be moved inside in isolation for their own safety and to hedge Britain's bets on the future of the crown.

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 2/21/2006 05:23:00 PM

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