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Alaska Airlines flight attendant Amber May has had some unusual requests in her 10 years of flying, but being asked to help save some flamingo eggs just about topped them all.
“A passenger rang the call button and asked if I would help keep some eggs warm,” May said in a release from the company.
The passenger as it turned out was a senior zookeeper from Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle. She was transporting 6 precious flamingo eggs in an incubator which she received from the Atlanta Zoo.
Woodland Park’s stand of flamingos are all past breeding age, so they couldn’t set their own birds up to breed and had to rely on younger ones elsewhere, but the incubator had stopped working, with several hours still to go in the flight.
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“A passenger rang the call button and asked if I would help keep some eggs warm,” May said in a release from the company.
The passenger as it turned out was a senior zookeeper from Woodland Park Zoo, in Seattle. She was transporting 6 precious flamingo eggs in an incubator which she received from the Atlanta Zoo.
Woodland Park’s stand of flamingos are all past breeding age, so they couldn’t set their own birds up to breed and had to rely on younger ones elsewhere, but the incubator had stopped working, with several hours still to go in the flight.
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Quick-Thinking Flight Attendant and Passengers Save 6 Flamingo Eggs Aboard Flight
Responding to the zookeeper’s plea for help, May promptly filled rubber gloves with warm water which the keeper used as a makeshift nest
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