Two monkeys were taken from the Dallas Zoo on Monday, police said. It was the latest in a string of odd zoo incidents being investigated over the past few weeks— including fences cut and the suspicious death of an endangered vulture.
No arrests have been made in any of the investigations, and police have not said whether the incidents are linked.
Dallas police said they believe someone cut an opening in an enclosure and took two emperor tamarin monkeys, small primates with long whiskers that look like a mustache. “It was clear the habitat had been intentionally compromised,” the zoo said in a statement that offered few other details. The incident follows the Jan. 13 closure of the zoo and a daylong search when a clouded leopard namedShe was eventually found near her habitat, but police said a tool had been used to cut an opening in its fencing. A similar gash also was found in an enclosure of langur monkeys, though none got out.was found dead, and the zoo said the death did not appear to be natural. Zoo President and CEO Gregg Hudson said the vulture had “a wound.
Ed Hansen, chief executive of the American Association of Zoo Keepers, said he could not recall a zoo facing similar incidents with such frequency.
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