ZOO ESCAPE.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15112, 22 December 1921, Page 3

ZOO ESCAPE.

GOAT DISLIKED HIS PRISON. "He'll get out!" Women visitors to the London Zoological Gardens raised this nervous cry when the-Gmelin sheep started to batter down tho Bft. door that kept him a< prisoner, says a London journal. "Sheep" is misleading when applied to this long-horned, hefcv bundle of muscle; he is a goat of tho most aggressive type. The door sagged and collapsed after a dozen battering-ram charges and the beast was out. Visitors scattered in dismay when, after ?■ few 4ft. jumps, tho "sheep' 7 made for the out-door monkey cage. Keep--ors, hurriedly mobilised, armed themselves with broomn and tried to turn him. Everyone tofd everyone else to "catch him by the horns."

Next the "sheep" bucked his way down the next tunnel, thought bek ter of it, and made for an innocent, bystander who was standing still. While the "sheep" was selecting the best place on which to butt his victim tho "catch his horns" siog,-)n was raised again. The visitor -acted on the spur of tho moment, and then thought ho had got hold of an earthquakePlatoons of keepers overwhelmed the creature, and cast him into his steeping den. . .'_■■-