Red panda named Barney escapes German zoo, is rescued by fire department while ‘grumbling barely’

A purple panda named Barney was rescued from a tree after he escaped from his enclosure on the Cologne Zoo earlier this week in Cologne, Germany, the zoo posted on its social media accounts on Jan. 19. 

After guaranteeing that Barney was protected and sound in his residence on Wednesday night, zookeepers arrived on Thursday to search out that he had made his means up a tree exterior his enclosure.

Barney, the zoo wrote on Instagram, “couldn’t be persuaded to leave of his own accord.” 

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So, to rescue him, the Cologne Zoo known as within the fire department. 

Using a ladder truck, officers extracted Barney from the tree safely and introduced him again down. 

Red pandas are an endangered species, with fewer than 10,000 remaining within the wild. Barney (not pictured) in Cologne, Germany, “couldn’t be persuaded to leave [a tree] of his own accord” — so officers known as the fire department. (Milwaukee County Zoo / AMAZING ANIMALS+ /TMX)

“The zookeepers caught the little panda on the ground and released him back into his enclosure,” the zoo wrote on social media. 

Barney, now returned to his residence, was “grumbling slightly,” the submit additionally stated. 

Zookeepers are not sure how Barney was capable of make his nice escape, however they believe he climbed out on bamboo that had been warped by the snow. 

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Despite their identify similarities, purple pandas are usually not intently associated to the enormous panda, stated the Cologne Zoo’s Facebook web page. 

Unlike their large counterparts, who’re naturally discovered solely in southwestern China, purple pandas are “found mainly in the temperate mountain forests of Nepal, India, through Bhutan and Myanmar, to southern China,” stated the Cologne Zoo. 

Unlike large pandas, who eat bamboo virtually solely, purple pandas eat a wide range of vegetation and bugs along with bamboo.  (Virginia Zoo by way of AP)

They additionally eat extra than simply bamboo, the zoo stated. 

However, like the enormous panda, the purple panda is an endangered species. 

The purple panda is categorized as endangered and fewer than 10,000 purple pandas stay within the wild, in line with the World Wildlife Fund. 

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Barney is not the one purple panda who has made information by escaping an enclosure.

In August 2022, a purple panda named Ravi was found in a fig tree in a park after he escaped from his enclosure on the Adelaide Zoo in Australia. 

Rusty the purple panda, pictured, escaped from the National Zoo for about six hours in June 2013. He was ultimately present in a close-by neighborhood.  (Abby Wood/Smithsonian National Zoo by way of Getty Images)

Ravi, stated the zoo, had arrived simply two days earlier than. 

His zookeepers believed he was merely attempting to discover his atmosphere and had gotten caught in a tree. 

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Zookeepers ultimately used a tranquilizer dart to soundly take away Ravi from the tree. 

In 2013, a purple panda named Rusty went on the run by Washington, D.C., for about six hours after he escaped from his enclosure on the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.

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Rusty was ultimately noticed within the close by neighborhood of Adams Morgan and was returned safely to the zoo. 

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