ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Animal Escapes.
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And the first cub from the replacement animal then squeezed through the dividing fence into the male's compound and was killed.
Other escapes: Common Hippo at Longleat
North American Otters at Drusillas
Chimps at Penscynor, several shot
here are some from New Zealand:
on 14 September 1925 a female leopard escaped from Auckland Zoo and was found a month later on 12 October floating dead in the harbour.
In March 1950 another female leopard escaped (supposedly via a 15cm hole in the cage roof). Twelve policemen and twenty soldiers with bren guns were called in to search it out. It was found the next morning cowering in some bushes within the zoo grounds, so was flushed with grenades and shot.
I don't know the exact dates for the following, but a white rhino managed to get across the moat fronting its paddock at Orana Park (some time in the 1990s I think) and roamed the grounds for a few hours before being recaptured...
A male pig-tailed macaque escaped from the North Brighton Zoo in the late 80s or early 90s and spent the day running around the rooftops of the neighbouring houses (this was a suburban zoo)...
A capuchin escaped from Hamilton Zoo a couple of years ago and was shot when it couldn't be recaptured (which caused a bit of an outrage)...
Another capuchin escaped from the Moana Zoo, formerly on the West Coast by Lake Brunner, and was never recaptured (I believe various animals escaped from this zoo over several years. It is now closed).
Wellington's red panda escaped a few times (as they always seem to from many zoos!)
on 14 September 1925 a female leopard escaped from Auckland Zoo and was found a month later on 12 October floating dead in the harbour.
In March 1950 another female leopard escaped (supposedly via a 15cm hole in the cage roof). Twelve policemen and twenty soldiers with bren guns were called in to search it out. It was found the next morning cowering in some bushes within the zoo grounds, so was flushed with grenades and shot.
I don't know the exact dates for the following, but a white rhino managed to get across the moat fronting its paddock at Orana Park (some time in the 1990s I think) and roamed the grounds for a few hours before being recaptured...
A male pig-tailed macaque escaped from the North Brighton Zoo in the late 80s or early 90s and spent the day running around the rooftops of the neighbouring houses (this was a suburban zoo)...
A capuchin escaped from Hamilton Zoo a couple of years ago and was shot when it couldn't be recaptured (which caused a bit of an outrage)...
Another capuchin escaped from the Moana Zoo, formerly on the West Coast by Lake Brunner, and was never recaptured (I believe various animals escaped from this zoo over several years. It is now closed).
Wellington's red panda escaped a few times (as they always seem to from many zoos!)
if a leopard was 'cowering', why couldnt it be tranqualized? i mean it could run once hit with a dart, but it could be done, no need to stress out and animal, and then shoot it. i find incidence like that repulsive!
on this escpaes, years ago a hippo excaped from dubbo zoo hippo lake, via underneath a fence. people were in the zoo earlies than normal i belive and found it happily moseying along. they managed to round it back under the fence i beleive. lter the pond was drained and all fences fixed. what is suprising is they ebelive the hippo (who was a youunger animal) had been doing it for ages, yet no one knew!
on this escpaes, years ago a hippo excaped from dubbo zoo hippo lake, via underneath a fence. people were in the zoo earlies than normal i belive and found it happily moseying along. they managed to round it back under the fence i beleive. lter the pond was drained and all fences fixed. what is suprising is they ebelive the hippo (who was a youunger animal) had been doing it for ages, yet no one knew!
escapes can and do happen from time to time. taronga has had clouded leopard, alligator, crab eating macaque and muellers gibbon escape in recent years.
i think the funniest thing to see would have been when auckland zoo's elephant escaped a few years ago by disabling an electric fence.
i think the funniest thing to see would have been when auckland zoo's elephant escaped a few years ago by disabling an electric fence.
note the date of the incident: 1950
sorry, chlidonias, yea back then whole zoo world was mental!
on glyn sating crab eating macquaes, these guys escpaed there exhibit, and went straight up the nearest support for the sky sfari, so trhe whole sky sfafri was shut down as to not have the little guys squished, amny zoo patrons were 50 emters above the ground for a while, as zoo staffed called in a code what ever animnal escape, evacte the zoo , then slowly tranbquisled and caught the falling monkies!
on glyn sating crab eating macquaes, these guys escpaed there exhibit, and went straight up the nearest support for the sky sfari, so trhe whole sky sfafri was shut down as to not have the little guys squished, amny zoo patrons were 50 emters above the ground for a while, as zoo staffed called in a code what ever animnal escape, evacte the zoo , then slowly tranbquisled and caught the falling monkies!
I have that book!
Zoo Tails by Oliver Graham Jones.
The chimpanzee (Cholmondely i think) was raised as a human until he got too big and was donted to the zoo. He was a loner and didn't get on with the other chimps. He fell ill one day and back then, London Zoo had a form of gas chamber to tranquilise the animals. This led to an amusing story where the chimp had learned to stick his finger in the gas tube and sat for nearly an hour before the vet realised
He managed to escape from this box one day and made a dash for freedom across the park on a bank holiday. He was shot before he could cause too much damage.If I remember, the polar bears escaped during the great London smogs. The vet was called out and had to search for the bears in thick fog. They eventually lured them back into the Mappin Terraces.
The black bears escaped but remained inside the mappin terraces. This led to a team of keepers and the vet running throughout the terrace with brooms until they realised that luring them back was a better option.
a red ruffed lemur escaped from its island in apenheul, holland a few years ago and jumped straight into the bonobo exhibit, where it got attacked, it was only saved by some quick thinking keepers who distracted the bonobos with some sugar cane and saved the lemur.
They've got red-ruffed (and other) lemurs free-ranging at Apenhuel. Maybe it didn't actually escape but got onto the Bonobo island by mistake. Anyhow, the outcome was the same whichever...
I only remember briefly what they said on the TV show, but i believe the Hippo swan downstream a bit then broke through a hedge and a farmer's gate was spotted grazing the lawn. The farmer managed to contain it until it was able to be transported back.
I may be wrong though...
I may be wrong though...
I can't imagine what it must be like to have to 'lure' a bear, sounds absoloutly terrifying.