Comments on: 7 Crafty Zoo Escapes

By: CatContagion

CatContagion — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:34:01 +0000

People are so happy about ‘rescuing’ animals from the roadside or garbage, but how about prevention first?? Stop taking dangerous wild animals from their habitats and putting them in tiny cages to be poked and screamed at!!! I’m so sick of humans doing this shit. Taking over their land and then caging them, then the animals gets loose and is angry and scared then they get shot. Fuck that. Fuck humans, use your head.

By: Cyberjar88

Cyberjar88 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 21:49:22 +0000

The Bronx Zoo cobra comes to mind…

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bronx+zoo+cobra

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:11:13 +0000

Maybe different species of animals are more inclined to “have fun” after a breakout

By: Ms Jo

Ms Jo — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:02:00 +0000

I took my son to teh Richmond, VA zoo 2 summers ago. They have a little monkey habitat across from the reptile house. We sat and ate lunch and wtched the monkeys. The baby (about 4 months old)managed to wriggle out through the chicken wire around the habitat. It came over, ate a piece of apple and went back to the cage but couldn’t get back in. We let one of the zookeepers know and they said his name was ‘Houdini’. Appropriate enough since noone had seen HOW he got out before.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:03:38 +0000

The orangutans at the Smithsonian National Zoo here in DC get to come out of their enclosures and climb a rope across the zoo to the other large primate house. There are always lots of zoo employees around watching them but it is very cool, and they seem less stressed out and happier then the apes I have seen in other zoos. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/ThinkTank/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:10:23 +0000

I would have to add “Cincinnati Freedom”, the cow that escaped a slaughterhouse in Cincinnati and eluded police in a residential neighborhood for 11 days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_Freedom

By: Lynley

Lynley — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:29:19 +0000

If memory serves, Chucky the alligator was found pretty much where they’d left him – not far from the area that was his destroyed habitat. Animal Planet did a series on their exodus to save the animals from the hurricane – it was called “The Little Zoo that Could.” I’ve been going to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo as long as I can remember – it’s a great little place. If you’re ever in Gulf Shores, check it out!

By: Ruth

Ruth — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:02:04 +0000

We had a cheetah escape from her habitat at the STL Zoo about 4 years ago. She scaled a 10 foot tall wall.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:25:06 +0000

They should have shot the people on the highway and let the bisons live… how dare those animals want to survive on our planet. lol

By: Kathy

Kathy — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:46:58 +0000

@Cassie–I envisioned something of that sort also, I love it. The San Diego Zoo had Ken Allen, an orangutan that was also quite an escape artist. He was never aggressive when he escaped but he drove the keepers crazy trying to figure out how he was doing it.