The Dallas Zoo has been hit with a bizarre and suspicious chain of events in recent weeks — culminating in the recovery of two missing emperor tamarin monkeys. Here's a rundown of the saga.
The monkeys' disappearance was the culmination of a series of suspicious events at the zoo in recent weeks.with a suspicious wound in his enclosure. Before that, Nova, a 25-pound clouded leopard, went missing for hours after her mesh enclosure was tampered with, the zoo reported. The leopard was later found and returned. At the same time, investigators discovered the enclosure for the zoo's langur monkeys was cut, but none of the animals escaped.
Though zoos are normally highly protected and well-designed, these recent events serve as an important reminder"that we all have to be vigilant in protecting animals in zoos, in national parks, in nature," Dan Ashe, president and CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, told NPR. It shows that these problems can happen even at a place as well-designed and well-managed as the Dallas Zoo, he said.
These very serious issues"are some of the major causes that are driving many of these animal populations toward extinction," Ashe said."We know how difficult it is to protect national parks and the animals within national parks and protected areas from trafficking and persecution."Three-week-old giraffe named Kendi, reaches up with his tongue to touch his mother, Katie's neck in the giraffe exhibit at the Dallas Zoo on May 26, 2020.
A U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report from 2014 reviewed by NPR reflected one non-critical compliance issue that year. This report said a keeper error allowed a female lion to escape her enclosure in August of that year."This animal was contained within a hallway however sedation was required to move her back into her primary enclosure," the report said.
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