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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was unclear how the mammals were able to escape from their enclosure. The Furuvik zoo is located near Gavle, 100 miles north of Stockholm, and had seven chimpanzees. It is part of an amusement ...