We intervened and rescued her, collared her, then released her back into her area. We told the zoo that if they didn't want predators to kill their show birds, then they had to fortify the zoo's perimeter fence and NOT blame the predators for merely wanting to survive. To this day, the zoo has failed to pay heed to our advice and more of their collection has been preyed upon. Suntree lives on. Tico lives on.
Belle lives on.
Hairlip's signal was lost last year, but there is every reason to believe that he still lives on and had made a long range dispersal. Skip was killed in cold blood by a chicken farmer that was too lazy to fortify his chicken coops and too trigger happy to kill the predator. This animal has become an icon for recent research by Chrissy Klinkowski from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Little Big Foot was a 5 month old male kitten we had captured in the Eastern Florida Flatwoods. He was tracked for about 2 months and was then attacked and killed by wild dogs in his natal den area.