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 ...

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 ...

A false alarm sparked chaos at Melbourne Zoo in Australia earlier today as patrons feared there was a baboon on the loose. Visitors to the zoo were either evacuated or put into lockdown this ...

The purpose of the exercise was “to build readiness enabling real situation management, and to prepare measures for when animals escape,” said the zoo in a statement on Facebook. The scenario ...

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 ...