Orangutan on the loose sets off scare in Florida animal theme park

There was a scare and visitors had to be evacuated from a portion of an animal theme park in Florida when an orangutan escaped from its enclosure and climbed trees. How it escaped is nit known but video footage shows the large female sitting about 20ft above a large crowd at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 2 July 2016.

The animal, at one time, drops to the ground and climbs on to a display board - it prompted screams from some of those standing nearby. As a witness explained - it climbed up out of the habitat and towards the guest area, just near the Zambia Smokehouse, which is in Stanleyville.
It was eventually shot with a tranquiliser dart and was returned to its enclosure. The park has not yet been able to establish just how the animal escaped. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was carrying out an investigation.
Incidentally,the animal was an 18-year-old named Luna and was the second to have left its enclosure while the public were in the part in just over two weeks.


Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org

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