A red panda named “Barney” escaped from his enclosure at a zoo in Germany and was not very happy when he was captured and brought back.
The annoying animal was discovered missing from its home at the Cologne Zoo on Thursday.
Zoo employees soon spotted Barney high in a tree outside the enclosure, the zoo said in a social media post.
Barney, zoo officials said, “could not be persuaded to leave of his own free will.”
Photos showed the red panda looking at onlookers, apparently enjoying the fact that he was out of reach.
Needing help, the zoo called local firefighters. Using a ladder truck, first responders were able to lower Barney to safety.
The panda was found missing from its enclosure on Thursday morning. koelnerzoo/Instagram
The zoo had to call the fire department to rescue him from a tree. koelnerzoo/Instagram
A video released by the zoo shows Barney climbing snowy tree branches when firefighters caught up with him in the canopy.
“Zoo keepers trapped the little panda on the ground and released him back into his enclosure,” the zoo wrote on social media.
Barney, back in his enclosure, was “grumping a little,” the zoo said.
Zoo officials believe he used a piece of bamboo that was bent under the weight of the recent snowfall to escape.
The red panda has lived in the Cologne Zoo since 2015.
Despite their name, red pandas are not closely related to the black and white Great Panda.
They are endangered and only about 10,000 remain in the wild in their native region in the Himalayas, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Slightly larger than a domestic cat, they are known for their excellent climbing skills and spend most of their lives in trees. They use their long, bushy tails to keep warm in the winter months.
Red pandas are famous for being escape artists.
In 2022, a red panda escaped from its enclosure at an Australian zoo before being found in a fig tree. Another disappeared from an Ohio zoo in 2020. A female red panda looking for a potential mate escaped from a Virginia zoo in 2017.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn