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Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) Flaco, the Eurasian eagle owl who escaped from his vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure in February 2023, had high levels of rat poison in his system and was suffering from "severe herpesvirus" that he contracted from eating pigeons when he died last month in Manhattan.The post-mortem necropsy report was released Monday afternoon by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), which runs New York City s Central Park Zoo, revealing its findings regarding what caused Flaco s demise on Feb. 23 of last year, when he was found critically injured in the courtyard of a residential building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan."Bronx Zoo veterinary pathologists determined that in addition to the traumatic injuries, Flaco had two significant underlying conditions. He had a severe pigeon herpesvirus from eating feral pigeons that had become part of his diet, and exposure to four different anticoagulant rodenticides that are commo

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