Two otters from Rio, Louie and Ophelia, left their Wisconsin zoo enclosure last week during a winter storm, appearing in images of security cameras that broke the snow, while the search continued on Tuesday.
The new zoo AND Adventure Park said that the two North American river escaped through a small hole that expanded in a buried fence, and their flight was quickly noticed by the zoperators in their morning rounds.
But Louie and Ofelia do not seem to have gone far, their clues showed them by exploring nearby water bodies and returning to the perimeter of the zoo from time to time, said the zoo in a press release.
The images released by the zoo show an otter that comes out of the borgada of a building and launched a slide in the snow, its front legs break next to it, the nose leading the road and the rear legs pushing for an additional impulse.
It is the undeniable “rebound, rebound, sliiiiide” of the otter, said the zoo in a Facebook publication, and creates one of the most recognizable mammalian tracks.
Louie and Ofelia are expected to remain close because the otters are territorial creatures, said the zoo, and added that its species are native to the area and capable of surviving, with local ponds and streams that offer food and shelters.
Search efforts include a hired tracker, cameras activated by movement and public calls to send photos and videos of bugs.
Louie and Ophelia’s reports have entered, along with some videos and photos, from their escape. One, which seems to be images of the security chamber, shows an otter sliding over the snow in a wooded area, its tail after the routine its body made in the snow.
Search engines expect Louie and Ofelia to be seen in the same place at least twice, giving the zoo a place to search. The zoo said that otters are not a danger to the public and that they would probably not approach a human.
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