A lacking clouded leopard shut down the Dallas Zoo on Friday as police helped seek for the animal that officers described as non-dangerous and certain hiding someplace on zoo grounds.
The small cat weighs about 20 to 25 kilos (9 to 11 kilograms), mentioned Harrison Edell, govt vp of animal care and conservation on the Dallas Zoo. The search inside the biggest zoo in Texas centered on scrubbing bushes, which Edell mentioned clouded leopards wish to climb.
The zoo tweeted that the lacking cat, named Nova, was a “severe state of affairs,” however Edell mentioned the animal didn’t pose a risk to people.
“If something, she’s very nervous and scared of individuals,” Edell mentioned.
He didn’t say how the animal escaped from its enclosure. One other clouded leopard on the zoo, Nova’s sister, was nonetheless in her habitat, Edell mentioned.
Animals have escaped from the Dallas Zoo enclosures earlier than. Most notably in 2004, when a 340-pound (154-kilogram) gorilla named Jabari jumped over a wall and went on a 40-minute rampage that injured three individuals earlier than police shot and killed the animal.
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