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An 11-week-old lynx cub escaped his enclosure through a broken fence and climbed a tree. It took firefighters half an hour to return him to his enclosure.

21-year-old Victoria Valledor was bitten by a lemur outside her home. When the police arrived, the lemur chased them as well. Officials were able to capture the primate, who was likely a pet.

81-year-old Hans Boxler Sr., the owner of exotic animal park Hidden Valley Animal Adventure, was trampled to death by a nilgai antelope that got out of its pen.

A pet wallaby named Blu escaped from a home through a hole that was dug under a fence by a dog.

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo’s 8-year-old California sea lion, Catalina, died Saturday after contracting Valley fever, a fungal ailment that is uncommon in marine mammals.

A woman found a dead tegu floating in the Merrimack River. Because tegus are not native to the area, it was likely a pet that escaped or was abandoned.

Two men pulled an 8-foot-long red tail boa constrictor out from beneath a parked SUV after one saw it slither under. They removed the snake, believed to be a pet, in a plastic container.

Robert B, a Sumatran orangutan, died of complications of a respiratory infection.

Florida Fish and Wildlife received a complaint about a 13-foot alligator named Gwendolyn that David Van Buren kept in a pool behind his house for more than 50 years, feeding her pizza and cookies. Officials are investigating after determining that Van Buren does not have appropriate caging.

Two dogs broke into the Baton Rouge Zoo during the night and killed 3 greater spot-nosed guenons. The monkeys had reached out of their cage toward the dogs, and were “basically chewed up” according to a zoo director. Two of the monkeys were dead when they were discovered by keepers in the morning, and one needed to be euthanized.