Lincoln Karim, a wildlife photographer and Pale Male chronicler, found Lima, Pale Male's hawk mate, dead under a tree in Central Park on Sunday. He speculated that the rat had eaten poison that, in turn, poisoned her.
Karim said he had arranged to take Lima to a laboratory in upstate New York for a necropsy and for toxicology tests. “It is important to find out what happened to Lima,” he wrote on his Web site, palemale.com. “We need to know if she was a victim of toxic substances in her food.”
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