UPDATE - ADVISORY High Park Zoo, two missing Capybara ^cb https://t.co/bvAQ7ptaHA —Toronto Police OPS (@TPSOperations) May 24, 2016Thirty zookeepers and city staff are pursuing two missing capybara in Toronto’s High Park, after the animals escaped from their pen overnight. They ran free as a third capybara was being transferred into their pen in the High Park Zoo, a city spokeswoman said Tuesday afternoon. Anyone who spots or encounters the capybara is advised to stay away and contact the police or Toronto’s non-emergency 311 service. The rodents are believed to be somewhere in the park, which spans 399 acres in the city’s west end. Police were notified of the escape shortly before 9 a.m.“I haven’t seen anything to indicate that there’s anything untoward that’s happened,” Const.

Source: National Post May 24, 2016 08:58 UTC