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A woman shot and killed two of her neighbor’s wolves and a sheriff killed a third wolf after they escaped from their pen and attacked one of the woman’s three dogs.

A Japanese macaque named Oops escaped from Mill Mountain Zoo, having let herself out when a zookeeper failed to lock the door while inside the enclosure for routine cleaning. The zoo was forced to close for the day to search for the missing monkey due to concerns for public safety. Oops was subsequently recovered one week later, having been spotted more than a mile away from the zoo.

Startled by a dog, a wallaroo escaped from his pen and remained on the loose.

A marmoset on the loose was captured by Animal Control.

A Bengal tiger escaped from his enclosure due to an electrical outage, and mauled a landscape worker at the Zoo Dynamics exotic animal facility. The man’s wounds required more than 2,000 stitches. Marcus Cook, owner of Zoo Dynamics, had previously been charged with multiple animal care and handling violations by the USDA, as well as being charged in a civil suit for alleged violations under his facility’s previous name, ZooCats, Inc. Animals from Zoo Dynamics were also involved in previous injury incidents. See 02/12/05.

A crocodile monitor escaped his cage and roamed the streets.

An alligator was spotted on the loose in a neighborhood.

Gita, a 48-year-old Asian elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo, died in her enclosure. Activists protested her death outside the zoo, citing unnatural conditions at the zoo being responsible for her death.

A 29-year-old Asian elephant Romani at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo gave birth to a stillborn calf. This would have been Romani’s fourth birthing.

A 5-ft-long caiman is found in a backyard playground.