"Even her experience of feeding had been distressing, " an RSPCA spokesperson explained, saying she had been locked in a shed and food would be hurled in for her at irregularintervals.
"This paper indicates that lakes may well be connected at irregular time intervals and that even an apparently isolated lake can breach and transfer water hundreds of kilometres to other distant lakes so the contamination potential in relation to small lakes is greater than we'd previously thought, " he said.