8 times other animals wanted freedom as much as Inky the octopus [View all]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/04/15/8-times-other-animals-wanted-freedom-as-much-as-inky-the-octopus/

"Three months ago, after more than a year in a New Zealand aquarium tank, Inky the octopus decided to pursue — or maybe accidentally ended up pursuing, according to one octopus expert — a life of freedom in the Pacific Ocean. It’s a big ocean, so he’s almost certainly gone for good.

Before Inky, however, many other captive animals have tried to make their own great escapes into more human-populated terrain, and a few have been successful. But most that fought the law found that the law won.

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(My Favorite)

In the steamy summer of 2013, Rusty the red panda was a new kid in town, having come just weeks before from a children’s zoo in Nebraska. And he evidently wanted to explore the nation’s capital. He slipped out of the Smithsonian National Zoo on a Monday morning and immediately became the talk of the town (and the subject of a question at a White House news conference).

But shortly after lunchtime, he’d been done in by Twitter: A family spotted him in Adam’s Morgan and tweeted his photo, then called the zoo. Zoo and Washington Humane Society personnel found him in a tree and nudged him with a pole into a safety net.

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Run, Rusty Run!