A marine biologist became very attached
to the mammals at the institute where he did his research. The death
of one of the dolphins threw him into such a funk that he vowed to
never let it happen again. So he developed a serum - from a certain
tropical bird, as it happened – that would heal almost anything
that ocean going mammals fell prey to. The institute's orca was among
the longest-lived cetaceans in the world.
The serum eventually ran out and,
unfortunately, it's extraction had required the destruction of the
institute's only specimen of the bird. The scientist went to the
city's zoo one night and sneaked into the aviary where he located
another specimen. On this very night the zoo's rather elderly lion,
long due for replacement but for the city's longstanding budgetary
woes, escaped from it's pen. Exhausted after a short chase pursued by
the zookeeper with the aid of the local police, he went to sleep
across the footpath leading from the bird exhibit.
Just then the biologist came nervously
racing towards the fences intent on escaping with the captured bird.
He leaped over the dozing big cat right into the arms of the oncoming
police who immediately placed him under arrest. They charged him
with crossing a staid lion with a mynah for immortal porpoises.
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