[URBAN NOTE] On the escaped capybara of High Park Zoo (#capybaraTO)
Yesterday, blogTO noted that two capybara escaped from their enclosure in the High Park Zoo.
(The above photo comes from the Friends of the High Park Zoo Facebook group.)
Today, I've found that they have gone viral. And what not? They are so incredibly cute.
What seems to have described by the CBC, the two female capybara escaped while being introduced to a new male.
City parks department workers were trying to introduce a new male capybara and female capybara to the enclosure to mate, and remove Chewy, when things suddenly went south.
In their attempts to make the swap, staff lost control of the new couple, hereby dubbed Bonnie and Clyde, according to Megan Price of the Toronto parks department.
The pair of bandits then made their escape, while Chewy was happy to hang out at home in his pen.
So did Bonnie and Clyde have a plan in the works for awhile? Did Chewy scare them off in an effort to keep his home? Or was it maybe just a spur-of-the-moment dash for freedom from a pair of young lovers?
As the National Post notes, the zoo staff are currently searching for the capybara on the assumption that they are currently hiding in the underbrush. I wish them well, and a quick recovery.
I just almost find myself wishing that a breeding pair had escaped: Could an indigenized capybara population be that bad?
(The above photo comes from the Friends of the High Park Zoo Facebook group.)
Today, I've found that they have gone viral. And what not? They are so incredibly cute.
What seems to have described by the CBC, the two female capybara escaped while being introduced to a new male.
City parks department workers were trying to introduce a new male capybara and female capybara to the enclosure to mate, and remove Chewy, when things suddenly went south.
In their attempts to make the swap, staff lost control of the new couple, hereby dubbed Bonnie and Clyde, according to Megan Price of the Toronto parks department.
The pair of bandits then made their escape, while Chewy was happy to hang out at home in his pen.
So did Bonnie and Clyde have a plan in the works for awhile? Did Chewy scare them off in an effort to keep his home? Or was it maybe just a spur-of-the-moment dash for freedom from a pair of young lovers?
As the National Post notes, the zoo staff are currently searching for the capybara on the assumption that they are currently hiding in the underbrush. I wish them well, and a quick recovery.
I just almost find myself wishing that a breeding pair had escaped: Could an indigenized capybara population be that bad?