JUST IN: Police and zoo officials believe a fence was 'intentionally cut' at the enclosure where a clouded leopard appeared to have escaped. There is now a criminal investigation, police said.
The female leopard, named Nova, is believed to have escaped through a tear in the mesh around its enclosure, according to Harrison Edell, the executive vice president of animal care at the zoo.
"It was their belief and it is our belief that this was an intentional act," Mitchell told reporters during a Friday press briefing. "And so we have started a criminal investigation."A clouded leopard named Nova rests on a tree limb in an enclosure at the Dallas Zoo. Nova went missing on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023 and the zoo was shut down as a result. Police helped search for the animal that officials described as not dangerous and likely hiding somewhere on the zoo grounds.
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