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A group of flamingos got a leg up on Hurricane Ian — by hunkering down in a ladies room at a botanical garden in St. Petersburg.
“Our animals are safe w/staff on site to see them through the storm,” Sunken Gardens said in a tweet Wednesday. “The flamingos are having a hurricane party in the bathroom; eating, drinking, & dancing.”
The image of the Chilean flamingos huddling together in front of restroom stalls at the roadside attraction as the storm slammed into the Sunshine State quickly went viral.
“It was just mainly for our members and folks that follow us,” supervising director Dwayne Biggs told the Tampa Bay Tribune. “It’s gone all over the country.”
Animals at Sunken Gardens often weather storms in another hurricane-proof building at the site, but the staff decided to take extra precautions with Ian and ushered them to the main building, the newspaper reported.
The pink birds congregated inside the women’s powder room next to the main lobby.
