Chinese Pangolin Makes a Break For Freedom!

Taken 14th August 2015
The Pangolin lumbered into the crowd of people accompanied by a few screams of small children before being retrieved by a keeper. Pangolins are such cool animals!

Hehe, I could imagine a news report title.
Baby anteater loose after a zoo loving teenager let it out of it's enclosure to take a picture. Later, he bragged to his friends on the website Zoochat for doing so.

For the record, I take no responsibility for releasing the pangolin

I would also be rather annoyed if a news report called it a baby anteater.

Interestingly it did this when we went last year, I wanted a cuddle, but thought the keeper may not be too happy with me cuddling the zoo's pangolin

Same here. Btw, those news reporters and the kids should be screaming in amazement and joy since they're seeing a species extinct in the western world outside of Leipzig!

Why would there be news reporters?

~Thylo

Have to say I always thought that for a species to be extinct that all specimens were dead,or does extinct have a different dictionary definition in the good old USA then the rest of the world!

Isn't the news like this?

"Welcome to BBC World News, our top story tonight. A pangolin escaped from its enclosure at Leipzig Zoo in Germany and was retrieved very shortly afterwards by a keeper. The pangolin travelled only a few feet and did no harm whatsoever before returned safely to its enclosure. We join our reporters on scene who are screaming in amazement and joy."

And while you're technically correct that Leipzig has the only Chinese Pangolins outside of Asia, it's worth mentioning that the US itself does have at least one (reportedly more) Tree Pangolin.

~Thylo