The local council took to leaving large quantities of carrots and alfalfa by the pool. For a week he was reported disappeared . He was finally discovered in the Santa Rosa Jauregui raw sewage outflow. He was taken 400 kilometres south to a small zoo in Chilpancingo, where he is known as Pipo and shares quarters with Papus, a circus dropout. The El Peregrino affair has highlighted a thriving Mexican trade in exotic animals.
Private zoos are popular with some of Mexico s super-rich.
A big-time drug trafficker captured in early December in Mexico City kept a priceless New Guinea cockatoo, a Bengal tiger, a panther, a puma and a jaguar in his apartment. Ownership of the last two animals endangered Mexican species is illegal. No-one is entirely sure how the owner of El Peregrino came to acquire him in the first place. The drive towards the Islamization of Bangladesh by President Ershad is having a visible effect on the country s education system. Some Bangladeshi children go to state primary schools, while others attend madrassaks, traditional religious schools which offer a parallel education to that of the state.