“Unusual activity” prompts Detroit Zoo to heighten security amid series of zoo crimes

ROYAL OAK — A sequence of break-ins at zoos throughout the nation is inflicting The Detroit Zoo and the Toledo zoo to be on excessive alert.

Dallas, Louisiana, and New York have all had animals go lacking this 12 months.

The Detroit Zoo has not been damaged into however in an interview with the Detroit Free Press the CEO of the Affiliation of Zoos and Aquariums mentioned there’s been uncommon exercise on the zoo that was probably an individual casing the ability.

It raises eyebrows as in January somebody freed a 25lb clouded leopard on the Dallas Zoo.

Police say the identical man returned two weeks later in January to steal two emperor tamarin monkeys.

Just a few days earlier than {that a} dozen squirrel monkeys had been taken from a personal zoo in Louisiana.

Then in February a eurasian eagle-owl escaped via a gap reduce within the mesh of his enclosure at Central Park Zoo in New York.

In an interview with me founder and president of Safe Schooling Consultants, Jason Russell identified that it may be “extraordinarily troublesome” to safe a facility with so many particular person areas and no roof.

Nonetheless, “That is one case the place I feel that know-how is definitely forward of the sport as a result of the analytics and know-how that’s out there on cameras and alarm methods now could be actually sort of forward of what a human being can circumvent. The secret is ensuring that it’s in the appropriate areas.”

The Detroit Zoo declined to interview however issued however issued the next assertion:

“As one of many largest customer points of interest within the area, the Detroit Zoo treats any sort of suspicious exercise severely. We all the time stay vigilant, and it’s a high precedence to maintain visitors, employees, volunteers and the animals who name the Zoo residence, secure.”

– Dr. Hayley Murphy, govt director and CEO of the Detroit Zoological Society.