The zoo issued a “Code Blue” and called the police to help find Nova, a 25-pound clouded leopard that escaped from its enclosure on Friday. The animal poses no threat to humans, the zoo said.
The Dallas Zoo was closed on Friday after issuing a “Code Blue” and calling the police to help address a “serious situation.”
Nova, a 25-pound clouded leopard, was missing.
Golf carts rolled down empty pedestrian walkways as helicopters and drones hovered overhead. Zoo workers and Dallas police officers used binoculars to comb the treetops across the 106-acre zoo.
On Friday morning, zoologists found a tear in the mesh in the zoo’s two-story clouded leopard enclosure. Investigating further, they found Luna, a 3- or 4-year-old clouded leopard, safely in her habitat. But Nova, her sister, was gone.
The zoo issued a Code Blue, meaning a “nondangerous animal” was missing from its enclosure, Harrison Edell, the zoo’s executive vice president for animal care and conservation, told reporters on Friday.
Mr. Edell said the Dallas police responded, bringing drones with “infrared capabilities,” which helped zoo workers to scan the treetops.
