ANIMALS
Stolen Dallas Zoo Tamarin Monkeys Located At Abandoned Home After Tip Led Police There In Lancaster, TX
The Dallas Police Department on Tuesday night announced it found two emperor tamarin monkeys reported missing from the Dallas Zoo.
The zoo alerted police on Monday morning after discovering the missing monkeys. According to zookeepers, the emperor tamarins would stay close to home, and they couldnt be located. “It was clear the habitat had been intentionally compromised,” the zoo said in a statement.
The zoo said police believed the tamarins were taken. The Dallas Police Department on Tuesday morning released an image of an individual they were hoping to identify and interview in connection with the case.
Later Tuesday evening, Dallas police said that with the help of the Lancaster Police Department, they located the monkeys inside an abandoned home in Lancaster. A photo released by Dallas Police shows one of the missing monkeys inside a closet of the home.
The investigation into the monkeys disappearance is ongoing, and no arrests have been made.
The missing monkeys are the latest in a series of unusual incidents at the zoo, beginning with the disappearance and recovery of a clouded leopard named Nova earlier this month. Since then, other animal enclosures appear to have been intentionally cut, the zoo said, and last week a vulture named Pin died under suspicious circumstances.
