Dallas Zoo alerts police after 2 monkeys declared missing, believed to be ‘taken’ - The Dallas Morning News

Police judge 2 monkeys were taken from their enclosure astatine the Dallas Zoo Monday morning.

Zoo spokeswoman Kari Streiber said erstwhile unit discovered 2 emperor tamarin monkeys were missing, it was instantly “clear the situation had been intentionally compromised.” According to police, the situation had been cut.

Streiber said since the monkeys, which are expected to “stay adjacent to home,” were inactive unaccounted for arsenic of 3:50 p.m., constabulary “have crushed to judge the tamarins were taken.”

The zoo was closed Monday owed to inclement weather, and isn’t expected to reopen until Thursday.

No further accusation was immediatley available.

The probe comes aft an unprecedented drawstring of events astatine the Dallas Zoo, including different missing animal, further torn enclosures and an antithetic death.

On Jan. 13, a 4-year-old clouded leopard named Nova had a time of societal media fame erstwhile the zoo announced she had escaped from her enclosure. After hunt involving infrared drones, a “code blue” and Dallas police’s SWAT team, she was recovered on-site and unharmed.

The time aft Nova escaped, officials revealed a akin chopped was recovered connected the langur monkeys’ enclosure, but said each of the langurs were successful their situation and accounted for.

About a week aft the situation vandalisms, a 35-year-old endangered vulture was recovered dead, and zoo unit rapidly deemed the origin “unusual.” The bird, named Pin, was 1 of 4 lappet-faced vultures astatine the zoo. He had been astatine the Dallas Zoo for 33 years.

At first, officials lone said that Pin’s decease did not look to beryllium from earthy causes, but aft the zoo’s veterinary squad conducted a necropsy — oregon an carnal autopsy — they said the vertebrate was recovered with a “wound.”

The Dallas Zoo is offering a $10,000 reward to anyone who provides information, connected immoderate of the cases, that leads to an apprehension and indictment.

If you person a tip, telephone the Dallas Police Department’s carnal cruelty portion astatine 214-670-7694.