The Daily Populous Wednesday July 24th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by thetimes.com and submitted by bluejackmovedagain

A young Carpathian lynx called Chapo, which is Spanish for Shorty, has won his freedom after repeated escape attempts and is now roaming the wilds of Saxony in search of rabbits, foxes and deer.

The one-year-old wildcat, which was born in Nuremberg Zoo, had been intended for a breeding programme for the species which was hunted almost to extinction in Germany by the early 1900s.

However, he had other plans and jumped over the fence of his enclosure shortly after his arrival at a breeding station in the Harz Mountains in early June.

He was quickly caught but his wanderlust was evident. “He kept looking for ways out of the enclosure and found it difficult to settle down,” Saxony’s wildlife authority said in a statement. “This showed that the young lynx was better suited to being released into the wild.”

well_uh_yeah on July 24th, 2024 at 14:30 UTC »

That's a nice story. I recently went to the zoo and before going one of the things I thought I had to see was the gorillas. Turns out seeing them in captivity was the absolute low light of the trip. More than any other animal they looked like they just knew they were in jail and on display. The rest of the zoo was pretty awesome though.

MyCleverNewName on July 24th, 2024 at 13:40 UTC »

If you love something, set it free.

If it mauls your neighbours and all wildlife in a nine block radius, it wasn't meant to be.

bluejackmovedagain on July 24th, 2024 at 08:45 UTC »

Non pay walled link https://web.archive.org/web/20240723195128/https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/german-zoo-frees-tiny-lynx-chapo-nuremberg-tdp8m22cq