An investigation was underway Saturday into the suspicious demise of a vulture on the Dallas Zoo. It comes simply over every week after a clouded leopard on the identical zoo went lacking for a number of hours after her enclosure appeared to have been tampered with.
Dallas police advised CBS Information in an announcement that officers have been referred to as to the zoo Saturday after the vulture was discovered useless in its enclosure.
In a separate assertion offered to CBS DFW, the zoo mentioned that employees found the vulture useless in its Wilds of Africa habitat underneath "uncommon circumstances."
Whereas the trigger has not been decided, police mentioned, it's being "investigated as suspicious." A necropsy can be performed. No additional particulars have been offered.
On Jan. 13, a clouded leopard named Nova obtained out of her enclosure, forcing the zoo to shut and prompting an hours-long search. She was lastly discovered protected and unharmed close to her habitat that very same night.
Dallas police advised CBS Information final weekend that investigators decided a "reducing device" was used to chop a gap within the fencing of Nova's habitat. Harrison Edell, Dallas Zoo's govt vp for animal care and conservation, mentioned zoologists discovered a tear within the mesh of her two-story habitat, based on CBS DFW.
Dallas police additionally reported that, after Nova's escape, zoo personnel found a "related reduce" within the fencing of an enclosure which homes langur monkey. Not one of the monkeys obtained out, nonetheless, and all appeared unhurt.
Police mentioned final weekend they have been uncertain if the 2 incidents have been related.