The Dallas Zoo and Dallas police are still trying to figure out who cut a tear in the mesh around the clouded leopard enclosure, leading to Friday's search for Nova.
Thankfully, Nova was found safe, and the zoo reopened Saturday with Nova back in her home and cared for."Not many people, before yesterday, even knew what a clouded leopard was," Dallas Zoo conservation interpreter David Smallwood said. "Now, today, everybody seems like they’re an expert on clouded leopards."
"I didn’t want nothing bad to happen to the cat because, you know, I know they’re really rare," added Celina Cantu, who was visiting the zoo Saturday."I know you might have seen a few memes or a few people saying, ‘I saw that cat in my backyard,’" he said. "No, you didn’t see that cat in your backyard. She was here the whole day."
"This was not something the cat did, it wasn’t something a keeper did in error, and it wasn’t a failure of the mesh," said Harrison Edell, executive vice president of animal care and conservation for the Dallas Zoo."And it was pretty obvious when we looked at the cut itself that this was something that someone had done intentionally. We asked DPD for their opinion and they agreed with that," he explained.
"We’ll leave it up to DPD to do their investigation and we’ll continue to support them as best as we can," Edell said. "We have cameras throughout the zoo in various locations."She was sedated during the rescue and has had a medical examination, according to the zoo.
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