A red panda named “Barney” escaped from his enclosure at a zoo in Germany and wasn’t too happy when he was caught and brought back.
The pesky creature was found missing from its home at Cologne Zoo on Thursday.
Zoo workers soon spotted Barney high in a tree outside the enclosure, the zoo said in a social media post.
Barney, zoo officials said, “couldn’t be persuaded to leave of his own accord.”
The photo shows the red panda staring at the onlookers, as if basking in the fact that he is out of their reach.
If help is needed, the zoo calls the local fire department. Using a ladder truck, first responders were able to get Barney back to safety.
The panda was found missing from its enclosure on Thursday morning. koelnerzoo/Instagram
The zoo had to call the fire department to retrieve it from a tree. koelnerzoo/Instagram
A video posted by the zoo shows Barney scrambling away on a snowy tree limb as firefighters reach him in the canopy.
“Zookeepers caught the little panda on the ground and released him back into his enclosure,” the zoo wrote on social media.
Barney, in the back of his cage, “grunted a little,” the zoo said.
Zoo officials believe he used a reed that had bent under the weight of recent snow to escape.
The red panda has lived in the Cologne Zoo since 2015.
Despite its name, the red panda is not closely related to the black and white Giant Panda.
They are endangered, with only about 10,000 left in the wild in their native range in the Himalayas, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Slightly larger than domestic cats, they are known for their elite climbing abilities and spend most of their lives in trees. They use their long, bushy tails to keep them warm in winter.
Red pandas have a reputation as escape artists.
In 2022, a red panda escaped from its enclosure at an Australian zoo before it was later found inside a fig tree. Another disappeared from an Ohio zoo in 2020. A female red panda looking for a potential mate slipped out of a Virginia zoo in 2017.
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Source: thtrangdai.edu.vn/en/
