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Location/Date
Description
Species
September 11, 2005
Boone County, MS

A wallaby was found dead after being hit by a car on a rural road. The wallaby had been on the loose since April.

  • Other
September 10, 2005
Bridgeport, TX

A 4-month-old tiger was found wandering in and out of traffic near an Interstate exit. The cub escaped from the back of his possessor’s pick-up truck.

  • Big Cats
September 6, 2005
Royal, NE

The director of the unaccredited Nebraska Zoo shot and killed three chimpanzees when they escaped from their pens. The chimpanzees escaped when a keeper left the padlock unlocked after a routine cleaning. The remaining chimpanzee was sent to a private breeding operation near Kansas City.

  • Primates
September 3, 2005
Coal Valley, IL

A lion cub named Amani died at the Niabi Zoo after the pulley on 80-pound door to the lion exhibit broke, causing the door to fall on him. After discovering that the cub’s spinal cord was severed, the zoo veterinarian decided to euthanize him.

  • Big Cats
August 31, 2005
Las Vegas, NV

Gildah, an Asian elephant on exhibit with the Siegfried & Roy show, owned by Ringling Bros. Circus’s parent company Feld Entertainment, died in her enclosure at the Mirage Hotel-Casino. Gildah, who was housed alone, was 57.

  • Elephants
August 31, 2005
Springdale, OH

Dillion, a Capuchin monkey with the Hendricks Bros. Circus, leaped from his trainer’s shoulder after a train whistle frightened him. He was found the next day. This was Dillion’s second escape.

  • Primates
August 27, 2005
Brackenridge, PA

Crocus, a 2-ft-long alligator, escaped from his backyard enclosure and was recaptured by a girl.

  • Reptiles
August 25, 2005
San Antonio, TX

Jackson, a baby monkey at Primarily Primates, was recaptured after he escaped his enclosure through a hole in a chain link fence. Walter Swett, the facility owner, said the Southwest Foundation had trained him in how to capture animals for Biomedical Research.

  • Primates
August 25, 2005
Mt. Pleasant Township, PA

A woman suffered a sprained wrist and possibly torn ligaments when Jewel, an Asian elephant on exhibit at the Westmoreland Fair, grabbed her wrist with her trunk after she reached to pet the 8,200-pound pachyderm. Jewel is one of two elephants owned by Cole Bros. Circus and leased to Wambold’s Circus Menagerie, a Florida-based act that travels the country with several exotic animals.

  • Elephants
August 18, 2005
Leominster, MA

A police officer was attacked by a “pet” squirrel as he was arresting the squirrel’s possessor.

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