Official: Escaped Jaguar Bit Through Steel-Cable Barrier

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A jaguar that escaped its enclosure and killed nine other animals at a New Orleans zoo apparently was able to bite through a steel-cable barrier that forms the roof of its habitat. That’s the word from an official at the Audubon Zoo.
Managing Director Kyle Burks told reporters Tuesday that the jaguar named Valerio apparently slipped through the resulting small gap in the cables.
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