January 27, 2011 Tarpon Springs, FL A 12-15 foot python weighing 150-200 pounds was captured behind a residential apartment complex. It was not known whether the snake escaped or was released intentionally. Reptiles
January 26, 2011 Riverside, CA Animal services officers captured a 5-foot long Monitor lizard wandering around a condo complex. Officers thought the lizard is an escaped pet. Reptiles
January 21, 2011 Scottsbluff, NE Two chimpanzees at the Riverside Discovery Center in Scottsbluff bit off two fingers from a keeper while being petted. The keepers injuries were not life-threatening and the doctors will try to re-attach the fingers. Primates
January 21, 2011 Kansas City, MO Police officers performing routine license checks at a McDonald’ parking lot found a metre-long alligator in the back of one of the cars. The reptile belonged to a man wanted for drug possession and driving on suspended license. The alligator was transported to Monkey Island Sanctuary in MO. Reptiles
January 14, 2011 Knoxville, TN An 8,000 lb elephant named Edie at the Knoxville, Tennessee Zoo backed a trainer into a wall and crushed her to death. Elephants
January 13, 2011 San Simeon, CA Three zebras from Hearst Ranch escape and wander onto nearby property and are all killed by two ranchers purporting to be protecting their horses and cows from the zebras. The two ranchers then immediately called a taxidermist to have the 3 zebras skinned and their hide tanned to make rugs out of them. Other
January 10, 2011 Grain Valley, MO A pet ferret bit off 7 fingers from a 4 month-old infant boy. The family’s ferret had gotten into where the baby was sleeping and began to take off the baby’s fingers. The infant’s father killed the ferret. Police are looking into the incident. Other
January 5, 2011 Clovis, NM A giraffe named Jay slipped on ice and injured his head, resulting in him being euthanized. Other
January 4, 2010 Ipswich, MA A female wolf jumped the fence at Ipswich’s Wolf Hollow Refuge by climbing up a snowdrift piled up against the wolf pen fence. The wolf returned on it’s own later that day. Other
December 21, 2010 Miami-Dade County, FL A black and white capuchin was apprehended and is now in custody of the FL Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission when it jumped on a man’s shoulder and bit him on the ear. The victim was taken to a local hospital. Authorities are looking for the owner. Primates