Series of animal mysteries at the Dallas Zoo: After the bizarre death of a vulture, the short-lived escape of a clouded leopard, Texas police are now investigating the disappearance of two emperor tamarins, and suspect theft.
The menagerie of this major Texas oil city, known for the television series of the same name, informed law enforcement on Monday that these two primates were nowhere to be found.
“It was clear that their compound had been damaged on purpose,” the establishment said on Twitter.
“We believe the animals were deliberately removed from the enclosure,” Dallas police said in a statement, without naming a potential suspect or motive.
These small monkeys with imposing white mustaches, which inhabit the forests of South America, “generally do not go far from home,” he said. But officials have searched the surrounding area, but his investigation has so far turned up nothing.
Emperor tamarins are regularly targeted for theft. Several of these primates had been removed from a shelter in the north of France in 2016, in the southeast of the country in 2011 or even from a zoo in Blackpool (United Kingdom) in 2014.
Other mysteries at the zoo
The Dallas Zoo is reeling from the death of its beloved vulture. The animal named “Pin” was found last week with an “atypical lesion”, leading authorities to believe its death was not due to a natural cause.
On January 13, a rare clouded leopard escaped from the menagerie through an intentionally cut breach in its enclosure. The cat named Nova had been recovered after a large mobilization, in which drones with infrared vision from the police participated in particular.
Later, zoo workers discovered a similar gap in the cage of langurs, a species of Asiatic monkey.
Source: BFM TV
