An Indian family has recovered an escaped parrot that owned it, after offering a cash reward to whoever brings it home. The African parrot “Rostoma” managed to escape from the home of his Indian family, which he sponsors from the southern state of Karnataka, 10 days ago, while the door was open, leaving his partner, the parrot. Rio” is behind him, while the family paid a reward of 85,000 rupees, which is equivalent to 1,065 dollars, to whoever finds him, and the amount was already paid to express their happiness at the return of their bird.

The family bought the parrots from Bangalore 3 years ago, as Indian law allows the African gray parrot to be raised as a pet. To that the parrots loved to spend time with the family.

He adds that he spent a large amount of money to print and distribute leaflets and posters with the parrot’s image, and contact details with the family, in addition to the reward amount, and it was initially 50,000 rupees, according to the UAE Al Ain website.

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The Shetty family distributed posters in the streets of Tomakoro, and paid some tuk-tuk drivers to announce “Rostoma” lost through loudspeakers while cruising the streets.

The parrot “Rostoma” was only 3 kilometers from the family, and was cared for by two workers, after they found it on top of a tree, where it was suffering from fear and hunger, and after 4 days, the two men learned about it through a leaflet distributed and contacted “Shetty”. Only then did they discover that the amount of the reward was higher than what was initially promised to the family.