Hello my curious! Be all welcome to a new video.
In today's video I have prepared a list for you
with 10 animals that escaped from the zoo, or from pet stores,
that will surely leave you with your mouth open.
From the escape of a python that ended in a tragedy with two people dead,
to the escape of three leopards from a zoo in China.
If you like stories about animals you will love this video,
just before we start with the topic I have a little question for you.
In my previous video, the one with the 20 things you didn't know about animals,
I told you about a bird that has poisonous feathers,
Do you happen to remember its name?
To make it more fun here I am going to leave you these 4 options on your screen,
choose the option that you think is correct
and write it down here in the comments right now,
at the end of the video I'm going to tell you the name of that bird with poisonous feathers
and let's see if you got your answer right, okay?
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TWO LIONS, TWO TIGERS, A JAGUAR AND A BEAR.
In the year 2018
a group of wild animals escaped from a zoo in western Germany,
Fortunately, there were no victims to mourn.
Authorities reported that two lions, two tigers, a jaguar and a bear
escaped from the Luenebach Zoo, in Germany.
How is that possible?
Apparently the area was affected by a severe storm
which caused damage to the electric fence that confined the animals inside their cages,
somehow the animals discovered that this protection barrier was not working
and took the opportunity to escape.
This zoo measures 30 hectares
and inside live a total of 400 exotic animals including Siberian tigers,
thank God, only six escaped,
otherwise it would have been complete chaos in the city
with wild animals everywhere.
A few hours later the authorities managed to catch the animals with tranquilizer darts
and took them back to their cages,
Except for the bear, they couldn't stop it and had to shoot it down.
The electrified fence was repaired within a few minutes
and they made sure that an incident like this would never happen again.
If this had happened during a day with many visitors in the zoo
the outcome would have been horrible.
LEOPARD
In the city of Bangalore, India,
a leopard escaped from a zoo causing panic among the people.
Leopards are quite agile and fast animals,
they can climb trees with great ease
and its top speed exceeds 100 kilometers per hour.
Dealing with an animal like this and returning it to its cage is not easy at all.
The leopard in this case was an eight-year-old male
who weighed about 90 pounds,
more than 200 people were deployed to the area to try to catch him,
but it was not an easy task, the incident ended with 6 injuries.
They managed to catch the animal after 10 hours of operation
by badministering a tranquilizer dart,
It took up to three tranquilizer darts to stop him.
The animal returned to his cage, but when he woke up he was still very restless,
the cage had to be reinforced and observed 24 hours a day
because they feared that he would try another escape.
In India, cases of leopards in urban areas are not isolated,
are frequently presented putting the life of animals and people at very high risk.
ORANGUTAN
Ken Allen was a Bornean orangutan.
who lived in the San Diego Zoo, in the United States.
He became one of the most popular animals in the zoo
because he escaped several times from his cage,
for that reason they nicknamed him 'The Hairy Houdini'
and people came from everywhere to see him in person, he was quite a celebrity.
Ken was born in captivity in the year 1971,
but in 1985, at the age of 14,
the orangutan became famous for repeatedly escaping from his cage.
He did it three times in total, first on June 13,
then on July 29 and finally on August 13 of that same year.
He seemed to be doing it for fun.
Coming out of his cage he simply took a walk around the zoo grounds
seeing the other animals in his cages.
He never behaved aggressively when he was captured again
and he always showed a meek attitude.
Seeing Ken's exploits, other orangutans tried to imitate him,
but they were not very successful.
Unfortunately Ken developed prostate cancer
and he had to be euthanized in the year 2000 at the age of 29,
but he will always be remembered as 'The Hairy Houdini',
the orangutan that escaped three times from his enclosure.
CHIMPANZEE
In 2016, the keepers of the Yagiyama Zoo, in Japan,
noticed that the cage of one of the chimpanzees had a hole and that it had fled,
they searched for him for several minutes until two hours later they managed to find him.
The animal was on some high tension cables near the zoo,
This put his life in grave danger,
at the slightest mistake he was going to end up burned.
In fact, there was even a power outage throughout the city because of the chimpanzee,
but before something bad happened
a group of experts got down to work to return it to its enclosure.
At first they tried a crane, but after several minutes trying to lower it,
it was clear that the method was not working,
so they applied the old reliable method, a pistol with tranquilizer darts.
So that the chimpanzee does not get hurt during the fall
they placed a blanket to cushion the blow,
they finally managed to return him to his enclosure safe and sound
although it was never known how his escape was possible.
ALLIGATOR
At the beginning of the year 2022, an alligator was the protagonist of a 'movie escape',
the animal was being transported to the zoo in a van
when he broke one of the van's windows and jumped out of the moving vehicle,
obviously he was trying to escape.
The two women who were driving the vehicle,
zoo employees and experts in this type of animal,
they realized what had happened in a few seconds.
The animal was left in the middle of the street,
lanes stopped both ways to watch the show.
It's not every day that a crocodile jumps out of a moving vehicle, right?
The animal is close to 200 pounds and measured more than 2 meters,
so his capture was not easy,
it took the help of 5 people to catch him and return him to the vehicle,
despite falling on a street so busy with vehicles and people
the situation did not get out of control.
The animal had a protection on its jaw
that made it impossible to use it,
without that protection perhaps the story would have been different.
Local media reported that the animal arrived at its enclosure safe and sound
to keep company with the other 800 crocodiles in the zoo where he now lives.
CAMEL
In rural Tennessee, in the southern United States,
a camel managed to escape from a small zoo
and things did not end well.
It is not clear how the animal managed to escape,
but it is believed that everything was due to an oversight on the part of the zoo staff.
In its flight, the animal killed two of its keepers
and attacked the bailiffs who came to the rescue,
Before they died, the two victims managed to call 911 for help
because they were being attacked by a camel,
unfortunately the help came too late,
the animal had mortally wounded them and they could do nothing to save them.
Arriving in the area, authorities found the men unconscious
who died within minutes of their injuries.
In the middle of the police operation, the animal also attacked the sheriff's vehicle
and then attacked the officers who were trying to help the victims.
The officers had no choice, but to open fire on the camel
because they feared for their lives.
And, as you can imagine, things did not end well for this poor animal,
the camel lost his life while trying to escape from the zoo
and his caregivers did not enjoy the best of fates either.
Definitely a very tragic ending.
- Bullshit! - Benny, where are you going with that camel?
THREE LEOPARDS
At a Chinese zoo, three leopards escaped while cleaning their enclosure,
everything happened due to an oversight of one of the employees
that did not comply with safety regulations
causing the three felines to seize the moment.
That took place in the year 2021 in the Chinese city of Hangzhou.
To make matters worse,
those responsible did not alert the authorities of what happened
and that complicated the search a lot,
for three weeks the keepers kept their mouths shut in fear,
but eventually they were discovered.
The 3 three leopards spent several days wandering around the city
without people knowing the danger they were running.
Things could end very badly with some death or injury,
but fortunately it was not.
The matter came to light when a person
saw one of the cats walking down a street
as if nothing had happened and alerted the authorities.
During the investigation it was discovered that everything had been caused by carelessness,
this incident ended with the arrest of 5 people
including the zoo keepers and director,
and with the three leopards back in their cages.
This is not the first time that a Chinese zoo
is accused of ignoring safety regulations,
so if you go to visit I recommend you to be careful.
PYTHON
Two young boys ages 5 and 7
were found dead inside an apartment in a Canadian city.
The responsible? A python over 3 meters long.
The tragic scene took place in 2013,
the apartment where the children slept was located above a pet store,
the snake escaped from its cage in the pet store, entered the ventilation system
and as she crawled through the hole she fell into the apartment
where these children were and strangled them.
The owner of the apartment was the same owner of the pet store
from which the python escaped
and the little ones were the children of his best friend
who had come that night to sleep in the apartment.
Although in this case the python did not escape from a zoo, it did escape from a cage
and it can give you an idea of ​​what happens
when one of these animals escapes in an urban environment.
Finally, the animal was caught and returned to its cage.
Human deaths caused by constrictor snakes such as pythons are very rare,
but they do happen.
Up to 17 similar deaths have been documented in the United States since 1978.
These animals wrap their prey with such a powerful force
that can kill a human by suffocation in a few minutes.
So if you have one of these as a pet take your precautions
and secure its cage well.
MONKEY
Outside the city of Moscow, in Russia,
a hysterical monkey almost ended the life of a girl
after escaping from a private zoo.
The girl had to be rushed to the hospital
where she remained admitted to the intensive care unit while she fought for her life,
she had many injuries and lost a lot of blood.
The entire event was recorded on security cameras
and you can see her parents fighting with the animal to save her little girl.
Incidents between monkeys and humans are very rare,
monkeys are not so violent animals if they are not disturbed,
but there are always exceptions.
More than 20 years ago in a zoo in Africa
a monkey was responsible for taking the life of a girl after stealing it from her mother,
it was a tragic event that went around the world.
This time there was no need to mourn a human death,
but that gives you an idea of ​​how dangerous interaction with a monkey can be
if there is no expert nearby.
It is believed that the monkey managed to escape from that zoo due to lack of security regulations,
since it was not a public access zoo, but a private one
which belonged to a local tycoon.
WOLVES
A pack of 9 wolves managed to escape from its cage in a zoo located in the south of France,
the escape occurred on a weekend during public opening hours,
at the time the herd escaped
there were not many people inside and they managed to be alert in time
before things got really ugly.
When wolves come into contact with humans they usually move away,
experts say that these animals are afraid of us,
but a pack of hungry wolves, in an area full of families,
I don't think it's a nice thing to see.
Months ago this zoo had been closed due to serious security problems,
a few days later they reopened it
and the escape of this wolf pack showed that those problems still existed.
Although no humans were injured,
4 of the 9 wolves had to be killed for having a very aggressive behavior,
the other 5 were anesthetized and returned to their cage.
The zoo was closed again,
but a month later they opened their doors again.
Could it be that this time they did solve the security problems?
I would think twice before visiting it...
- What stupidity! - Benny, I'm not going to buy you a wolf online.
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