Melbourne Zoo Animal escape at Melbourne

Hey folks- no details on this at present, but as I was leaving Melbourne Zoo today at closing time there were keepers scrambling towards the front half of the zoo. A keeper shouted at me as he went past that they had an escaped animal. I asked what it was and I *think*, but am
not sure, that he said an orangutan. If anyone hears any news please post here.

 

Well if it was a successful recapture the public will probably never hear about it. Zoos, understandably, prefer to keep these things hushed up.

I was at Taronga once when a young keeper climbed way up into a tree to recapture a tree kangaroo. It was a real Tarzan act.

 

It was a gorilla -looked like a young male. Came out of the bushes in front of me near the zoo entrance. Ambling fairly sedately, but as came closer to a groups of about 4 kids & 2 adults they screeched, and it took off much quicker towards the mandrils. Luckily it was around closing time so the front gates were closed. I presume it was recaptured fairly quickly. At last report I was just sitting outside the toilets down near the Mandrils.

 

Hey, I can just see the headlines; "Mad Gorilla On The Loose!"
Shades of King Kong!

 

It was yakini...He escaped after Sunrise (Melbourne morning show) did a report there.

 

wow, Yakini on the loose, year of the gorilla no doubt.

 

So that's what was being filmed! I bumped into a film crew a couple of times. Self-important bunch.

 

My mum said she saw the report and that's where I heard it from. She said it was the weather being filmed there.

 

thanks for the link, nice reading material.