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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Julia Musto

Adam the emu is battered to death by giant hail during storm at Missouri zoo

A 21-year-old emu named Adam was killed at a Missouri zoo after sustaining head trauma from softball-sized hail that battered the city of Springfield during a historic storm.

Adam, a female emu at the Dickerson Park Zoo, suffered fatal injuries during the severe weather Tuesday. Zoo officials say that can be blamed on the emu's instinct to lie down to take cover, according to The Associated Press.

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