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A 37-year-old gibbon named Euell escaped from the zoo and bit a man in the parking lot. The zoo said it intends to keep Euell permanently indoors to prevent another escape.

A female dolphin died at the Mirage Hotel in the Dolphin Habitat where she was born on 05/21/97. The cause of death was undetermined. This was the 11th dolphin to die at the Mirage since it opened the Dolphin Habitat in 1990.

A woman was gored and severely injured by a neighbor’s buffalo who escaped his pasture and entered the woman’s yard. The woman attempted to lure the buffalo out of her yard by tossing fruit, but the animal charged her, knocked her to the ground, and severely injured her legs. A police investigation was underway.

A lion and a tiger escaped from McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary because their cages were not secured properly. The Sanctuary owner was cited for keeping animals in an unsafe manner.

Two black leopards tranquilized and recaptured may have been responsible for an attack in March on a neighbor’s puppy, 200 yards from the leopards’ compound. Police were investigating.

Reports of a giant lizard began circulating early the previous week. A local man captured the lizard and kept him as his “pet.”

A neighbor complained of seeing a “baboon” at large. A sheriff’s deputy identified the animal as a monkey, not a baboon, and the animal had returned to his possessor.

Ulaq, a 5-year-old polar bear, died at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Gardens. No cause of death was reported after necropsy. Zookeepers thought the bear was in excellent health before his sudden death.

Thurston County fairgoers alerted police to starving animals being exibited at a fair petting zoo. Ten animals were confiscated, including three alpacas, one llama, three goats, and three sheep. The animals were turned over to Hooved Animal Rescue of Thurston. Police referred the case to the prosecuting attorney.

A man discovered a 4-ft-long alligator in a crate alongside a road in Burlington County. The Cape May County Park and Zoo agreed to take the alligator.