A red panda spent two days in the woods after escaping from an Australian zoo and was recaptured after being found hanging out on a fig tree in a nearby park on Sunday.
The 7-year-old panda, Ravi, was brought back to Adelaide Zoo from another zoo last week in hopes of pairing with a female red panda named Mishry. But by Friday, Ravi was gone.
Adelaide Zoo Director Phil Ainslie told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that zookeepers tried to lure Ravi down from the fig tree on Sunday with some of his favorite foods, including bamboo and sweet corn, to no avail.
Finally they fired a tranquilizer dart.
"We used several different dart devices and finally shot the dart into his body, and then it only had to wait about 15 minutes for the drug to take effect," Ainsley said.
Then Ravi fell into the blanket of the zookeeper waiting under the tree.