China does body cavity search on 10,000 pigeons

[vaskidmark]

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/latest/a/25157277/china-body-searched-10-000-pigeons/

The 10,000 pigeons released in a ceremony for China’s National Day underwent unusual scrutiny, each having its feathers and anus checked for dangerous materials, State-run media reports say.

I'd exclaim "No s___t", except that's pretty much what they wanted.

Pigeons carrying "dangerous materials" up their fundament?  Just whom do they fear might have planted "dangerous materials" in pigeons?

Apparently it's those pesky Muslims. 

The notched-up security measures reflect heightened concern about violence following a string of attacks blamed on separatist militants from the country’s ethnic Uighur Muslim minority, as well as bus explosions and random slashing attacks attributed to disgruntled individuals.

Last October, three Uighurs in a vehicle rammed through crowds in front of Tiananmen Gate in central Beijing and set off explosives in an attack that killed themselves and three bystanders.

stay safe.

[Balog]

Don't birds have cloacas, not anuses (anii?)?

[TommyGunn]

Don't birds have cloacas, not anuses (anii?)?

You expect reporters, who would identify a double-barrel flintlock shotgun as an AK-47, to know the difference?