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Red panda found in fig tree after it fled from Australia zoo – Fox News

Red panda found in fig tree after it fled from Australia zoo – Fox News

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Some animals fair can now not be tamed — and that was as soon as the case for one younger crimson panda named Ravi. 

The 7-twelve months-outdated crimson panda was as soon as dropped at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia fair final week in the hope that he would desire a liking to a feminine crimson panda, Mishry.  

Ravi had various plans, it seems. 

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Within two days, Ravi was as soon as found missing from the zoo. 

Ravi, a 7-twelve months-outdated crimson panda, sits in a tree shut to the zoo that he escaped from fair days earlier. 
(Australian Broadcasting Company through AP)

The zookeepers spent all day trying to entice Ravi down from a fig tree that he had climbed in a shut-by park, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.

Adelaide Zoo director Phil Ainsley acknowledged that the workers tried to give him bamboo and candy corn, two of his favorites — but Ravi was as soon as now not budging.

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“We conventional just a few various scoot gadgets, lastly bought a scoot into him and then fair needed to aid about 15 minutes fair for the drug to desire some extinguish,” he acknowledged to ABC. 

Within that immediate time body, Ravi fell into the blankets that zookeepers had been preserving for him as they waited under the tree, in step with an Associated Press file. 

Zookeepers are shown on the purpose of hang Ravi from a tree shut to the zoo he escaped from days earlier. 
(Australian Broadcasting Company through AP)

Ainsley, the zoo director, urged ABC that Ravi is doing well.

The animal is spending a while in the animal health clinic for the subsequent few days to make certain he’s healthy and fully recovered. 

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But why would Ravi wish to flee?

“Clearly he’d fair arrived and was as soon as testing his enclosure,” the director urged ABC. 

This was as soon as a shut name for the zoo, as crimson pandas are an endangered species, as Fox News Digital previously reported. 

Ravi is caged after being found in a tree shut to the zoo he escaped from days earlier in Adelaide, Australia. The panda escaped from his enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo and was as soon as recaptured on Sunday from a fig tree.
(Australian Broadcasting Company through AP)

Fewer than 205 crimson pandas are accounted for in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Program. 

Though endangered, crimson pandas are legally protected in India, Bhutan, China, Nepal and Myanmar — that methodology they may be able to not be taken or traded across international lines, in step with the World Natural world Fund. 

Consultants estimate that much less than 10,000 crimson pandas dwell in the wild. 

The species appear very equivalent to bears and raccoons — but are a segment of the ailuridae family, which is an unspecialized carnivore species that originated in Europe. 

Consultants estimate that much less than 10,000 crimson pandas dwell in the wild, in step with the World Natural world Fund. 

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Ravi’s ranking away comes fair weeks after a Michigan zoo welcomed a baby crimson panda. 

The 8-twelve months-outdated crimson panda, Maliha, delivered a cub at the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Michigan. 

Cortney Moore of Fox News Digital, besides as the Associated Press, contributed reporting to this article.

Brittany Kasko is a everyday life manufacturing assistant with Fox News Digital. 

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