Sydney — Five African lions broke out of their enclosure at Sydney's harborside Taronga Zoo on Wednesday, triggering an emergency lockdown. The Reuters news agency said the escape happened while ...

That happened last September in Minnesota when a zoo worker literally left a door open, allowing birds to escape from an aviary. And there are cases of escape prompted by wrongdoing, such as in ...

Fortunately, several attentive guests caught the great escape on video, revealing Kembali’s swift and athletic maneuvers. Kembali — one of the zoo’s seven Sumatran orangutans — was caught ...

On Feb. 7, Ben “meddled” with the steel mesh in his habitat “in just the right spot,” according to the zoo. His fiddling with the mesh caused a cable to fail, allowing him to escape again.

The zoo is checking its own surveillance footage to determine how Kembali managed to escape. It’s also asking visitors who were at the orangutan habitat and might have recorded video to contact ...

A tropical zoo is inviting all-comers to come and take on a challenge "bringing conservation to life". Plantasia, located in Swansea's Parc Tawe Retail Park, has launched a unique escape room ...