Meet Bob the tame flamingo who has become a local superstar | Innovation

By Andy Coghlan

NO WONDER this child is clamouring to touch Bob the tame flamingo. He has become a local superstar on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, after injuring himself by flying into a window of the island’s Hilton Hotel and collapsing unconscious by its swimming pool.

Odette Doest, a local vet, treated Bob for concussion, and has since kept him at a wildlife rehabilitation centre she runs as part of her charity, Fundashon Dier en Onderwijs Cariben.

Since his crash, Bob’s life has been transformed and he is now an ambassador for the charity. Doest …