• 5 years ago
Douglas the parrot, who showed up in a prevalent kids' film about the undertakings of Pippi Longstocking, has passed on at 51 years old.

Douglas, a male red macaw, was unflinching by both celluloid distinction and assuming the female job of Rosalinda, an individual from a group of privateers who catch Pippi's dad Chief Efraim Longstocking in the 1970 film Pippi in the South Oceans.

Matthias Reinschmidt, the chief of Karlsruhe Zoo in Germany, said Douglas had passed on of seniority, while laying on his arm.

Pippi Longstocking is the youthful champion of a progression of books by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, which have been adjusted for the little and wide screen commonly.

After his minute in the spotlight, Douglas proceeded to settle in a fenced in area at the People Park in Malmö, however harmony was to escape him in Sweden.

In 2003, the experts concluded that he would need to be put down, for absence of the correct administrative work to demonstrate that he had been imported lawfully from Brazil.

This caused a colossal clamor, as Karlsruhe Zoo reviewed on Facebook, and 50,000 individuals - including Pippi Longstocking performing artist Inger Nilsson - marked a request to save his life.

It just so happens, a previous proprietor could demonstrate that Douglas was a lawful foreigner, and he lived to fly one more day.

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