Were Animals Breaking Out Of Our Cage

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Rusty the red panda was found yesterday after a brief escape from the National Zoo
• Rusty joins an aristocracy group of crafty animals that eluded captivity
• A Bronx Zoo cobra'southward escape in 2011 captivated social media outlets
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(BuzzFeed/CNN) -- Rusty the red panda is the most contempo zoo animal to prove it truly is a jungle out in that location. On Mon, the National Zoo in Washington announced that piffling Rusty had gone missing.

Thankfully, by the end of the day, he was dorsum in his enclosure and no longer wandering effectually the big city unchaperoned. Rusty's adventurous twenty-four hours in D.C. is, plainly, not the start nor the strangest story of an escaped animal running amok.

Don't worry, though, all these have relatively happy endings!

one) Evelyn and Jim: The gorillas that escaped, more than once, from the Los Angeles Zoo.

These two gorillas were a pretty big headache for the zookeepers at the Los Angeles Zoo. The primates in crime escaped then many times that the zoo received a warning from federal officials, co-ordinate to ABC News. The zookeepers were housing them in an enclosure originally intended for bears; the gorillas would use vines to climb out, fifty-fifty one time bounding the wall with a running jump.

2) Nala: The lioness that escaped into Disney's backyard.

In the belatedly '90s, a 450-pound lioness named Nala -- after a character in Disney's "The Lion King" -- escaped from Kissimmee's JungleLand Zoo when handlers were cleaning her cage. The declawed lion prowled the area, much to the chagrin of residents. Thankfully, no one was hurt. Later on a few days on the loose, Nala was found by a search team and returned to her pen.

3) Virginia: The wolf that escaped from the Los Angeles Zoo and may or may non have been recaptured.

The story of Virginia the wolf is one of the stranger ones. The timber wolf escaped from her enclosure three times in the 1970s earlier she finally got out for expert. It's unclear, however, what happened to the antsy wolf after that.

iv) The 170+ Rhesus m onkeys that took over Long Island in the 1930s.

More than 170 rhesus monkeys, similar this one, escaped from Frank Buck'due south jungle military camp in Long Island in 1935.

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This kooky incident happened at an old-timey exotic animal park run past famous animal collector Frank Buck. According to the original 1935 New York Times article, the monkeys' surface area was left open ane night, they got out and went bananas in a neighboring boondocks. Local law enforcement realized something was up when they started getting more than than a few telephone calls reporting monkeys crawling effectually people's houses. Buck'south jungle camp even offered a season pass to any resident who returned a monkey.

v) Ken Allen: The "Hairy Houdini" of the San Diego Zoo.

Ken Allen is hands the San Diego Zoo's most famous -- and successful -- simian escape artist. He became famous in the '80s for his numerous, daring escapes. He even taught another orangutan how to utilize a branch the manner a human uses a crowbar to bust out of their enclosure. In 2000, Ken was euthanized in captivity afterward being ill with cancer. He was 29. The LA Times wrote an obituary for the honey orangutan. "With the solemnity usually reserved for the passing of revered civic leaders, San Diego Zoo officials on Friday announced the decease of Ken Allen, an escape-artist orangutan so love that he had his own fan club," wrote Tony Perry, a Times staff writer.

6) Nikica: The hippopotamus that wouldn't stay put.

Nikica, a two-ton hippopotamus, swims through overflowing waters in Montenegro.

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Information technology's pretty tough to tell hippopotamuses what to do. They're very big and don't exactly take direction. That'southward what one village in Montenegro learned immediate. In 2010, after some flooding in the area, Nikica escaped her pen and made her way into a body of water in the nearby hamlet of Plavnica. The villagers didn't mind Nikica swimming effectually their homes, though, and she ended up existence a pretty popular glory in the area. She was eventually brought home after floodwaters receded.

7) The nin east bison that ran loose in Oakland only to be coaxed back into their enclosure with breadstuff.

In 1997, nine half-ton bison fabricated a break for it from the Oakland Zoo. The herd didn't get very far, about 200 feet from the zoo grounds to exist exact. The zookeepers lured the roaming bison back with pieces of bread.

eight) Satara: The rhino that ran away from home after his mate left him for a younger rhino.

It seems similar rhinoceroses can go on jealous rampages, likewise. Co-ordinate to South Australia's The Advertiser, Satara was a two-ton rhinoceros that threw a jealous tantrum inside the Monarto Zoo near Adelaide. The 18-year-old male person escaped his enclosure and ventured into another department of the zoo where other rhinos were held before wandering back into his pen. The zookeepers figured it was because of Satara's mate Yhura pairing up with a younger rhino. Scandalous.

9) The penguin that escaped a Japanese aquariu m .

This picture released past Tokyo Sea Life Park on March five, 2012, shows the escaped penguin swimming in a river in Tokyo.

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Last year, a Humboldt penguin escaped from Tokyo Ocean Life Park and spent a whopping three months waddling effectually the city. The 1-year-onetime fugitive was recaptured after being spotted multiple times swimming effectually Tokyo Bay. The penguin came back to the aquarium in expert condition, manifestly fit for large urban center life.

10) And of course, the clever Bronx Zoo c obra.

I want to thank those animals from the movie "Madagascar." They were a real inspiration.

— Bronx Zoo'south Cobra (@BronxZoosCobra) March 28, 2011

In March 2011, an Egyptian cobra slithered away from the Bronx Zoo's World Of Reptiles -- and into the hearts of Twitter users. After a few days of searching, zoo officials found that the elusive snake hadn't gotten very far; she was hiding amongst pipes in a holding area in the zoo's reptile firm. They lured the cobra out using rodent-scented wood shavings.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/25/living/buzzfeed-cnn-escaped-zoo-animals/index.html

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