
Raven ‘queen’ lacking from Tower of London, feared dull
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Merlina, viewed here in happier instances.
(Image: © Historic Royal Palaces)
Even handed one of many iconic ravens that resides in the Tower of London is lacking, and officers anguish the worst. Will the tower drop, as memoir warns? (Potentially now not.)Merlina, a female raven (Corvus corax), joined the corvid neighborhood on the tower in 2007, and has reigned since then as "the ruler of the roost," tower representatives tweeted in a thread on Jan. 13. Nevertheless Merlina, one among seven royal ravens in the tower, has been lacking for a whole lot of weeks, "and her persevered absence signifies to us that she would possibly possibly possibly possibly also have sadly handed away," representatives wrote in one among the tweets.Related: The 5 smartest non-primates on th...