Minds out of the gutter, please.

This is about a kookaburra who was rescued by Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo after being mauled by dogs in a nearby park.  It turns out she was unable to fly due to being too obese.  At 540 grams, this girl was about 40% heavier than the normal adult kookaburra.  It is thought she got so fat from barbeque handouts from people picnicking in the park.

Here she is:

"I’ve seen many kookaburras, but never before have I seen one so fat,"

wildlife hospital nurse Gemma Watkinson said.

"It turned out that it was simply too obese to fly."

"I’m almost certain this porky kookaburra found a resident or two who’ve been treating her with sausages. In the wild she’d eat a whole small animal [and] get a balanced diet.

"Butchers’ sausages are just too much of a good thing.”

Its now diet time for one fat kookaburra.  I wonder if she’s laughing about it?

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