Auckland Zoo Elephant on the loose !!

[Nigel]

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040123_548.html

so much for my earlier thread about elephants .... Auckland zoo has just had an unusual experience with one of theirs ...... see the above link/headlines that reached America

 

[Simon Hampel]

Ha - great story, wish I'd been there to see it - would have made some great photos !

 

[Nigel]

True True !!
But check out Jays website -- Auckland page . You can see photos of the elephants wandering about the zoo -- unconstrained .
I will check the Auckland papers tomorrow and see if there are any photos of this event .
Has anyone else had animals escape from their local zoo ?

 

[Axl]

Auckland Zoo has had a number of escapes over the years. In the 1920s or 1930s, two leopards escaped. A polar bear climbed the wall of it's enclsoure into the zoo grounds and in 1960, the elephant Jamuna, upon seeing a giraffe for the first time, took off through the zoo picnic area carrying a group of children she was giving a ride too. Nobody was injured.

Recent escapes include Indra the orangutan (1996), Scuttles the Sea Lion (2001) and Jin the otter (2007).