Valerio the jaguar likely escaped through 8-by-10-inch hole in woven stainless steel roof

https://www.nola.com/ ^ | 7/17/18 | Jennifer Larino

[BBell]

It sounds like the escaped animal protocol worked well!

The escaped animal prevention.... not so well. Those folks really dropped the ball.

[D_Idaho]

I remember going to Audubon Parkk Zoo as a kid. Most of the cages were very small, as I recall. There was this stir-crazy baboon who used to... Never mind.

[BBell]

It’s actually a very nice zoo now with nice “enclosures” (they don’t call them cages anymore). It’s one of the better run zoos in the country.

[BenLurkin]

Best day of his life.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Jeezuz, can you believe this:

"A zoo employee tasked with delivering animal diets to enclosures"

How about this instead:

"A zookeeper feeding the animals"

These "reporters" must get paid by the word.

[Husker8877]

He somehow missed the partridge in a pear tree.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

Yes, I agree, a very nice zoo and I have been there many many times and stood by that exhibit.

Thank God the Zoo had not opened for the day.

[yesthatjallen]

"I'm still processing that the animal was able to bite through this woven stainless steel cable," said Kyle Burks, vice president and managing director of Audubon Zoo and Park.

It looks like chicken wire.

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

There was this stir-crazy baboon who used to... Never mind.

I knew a Dutchman who used to sneak oranges rubbed in tuna into the zoo and toss them to the monkeys with predictable results. He thought it was hilarious.

[bigbob]

Must have been really hungry because libs tell us humans are the only ones that kill for sport.

[Ancesthntr]

Any predator or any pest can fit its entire body through any hole that will allow its head to pass. Count on it. Evidently, some one at the zoo didn’t.

[BBell]

That would be woven stainless steel chicken wire.

[BBell]

He’ll tell his grand kids about it.

[BBell]

My daughter said she and my grand girl are “friends” with him. Through the glass of course.

[BBell]

I just looked it up and yes it was shot in New Orleans. part of it in the town I live in.

[yesthatjallen]

Clearly woven stainless steel chicken wire isn't good enough.

Was it ever tested or did someone just decide 'yeah, that'll work'?

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

It’s such a beautiful zoo. Yes, I have stood at that glass with my kids and grandkids many times through the years.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I remember reading that jaguars have the strongest bite force of any of the big cats - sounds like this chain link fence wasn’t nearly strong enough to hold him in.