ESCAPE IN ZOO.
DINGO KILLS WALLABIES WIRE NETTING TORN DOWN (By Telegraph-Press Assn.--Copyright)' MELBOURNE, Jan. \[).
A dingo broke into the wallaby enclosure at the Melbourne Zoo t heother night and killed several wallabiesand fatally injured five other.--. The dingo escaped from its enclosure by leaping over a fence I)ft. high. It tore a hole in the wire mesh .surrounding the wallaby enclosure, and so gamed access to a cage containing a number of Bennetts' wallabies from Tasmania. It killed three and pursued five of tin: young animals which escaped. The dingo then smashed through' wire netting into the next cage, where there were some red-necked wallabies. It killed one of them and mauled ive others so badly that they died. In the cage was a female black striped wallaby, the only specimen in the zon. It, had a young wallaby in its pouch. The dingo killed both. When the dingo first came to the zoo it escaped, and ever since it has been kept in a special enclosure, surrounded, by a fence !)ft. high, with an overhanging ledge 2ft. wide. Zoo officials are unable to understand how it escaped.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 February 1936, Page 8
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