Pillow Talk Japan

The Environment Ministry announced Thursday that a marten killed nine of 11 Japanese crested ibis that were being prepared to return to the wild in a cage in Sado, Niigata Prefecture.
The ministry said it found the small carnivore’s tracks inside the birds’ cage at the Sado Japanese Crested Ibis Conservation Center on Sado Island.
The 11 ibises were being kept in the large pen in preparation for their release into the wild in autumn.
(Yomiuri)