HUMANS are not the only ones tiring of confinement during the coronavirus pandemic — a panda escaped from his enclosure at Copenhagen Zoo on Monday. Xing Er, a 6-year-old male panda — soon to be 7 — then took a tour of the zoo, which was closed at the time. He was spotted on a surveillance video “leaving his enclosure, slipping under an electric fence,” zoo spokesman Jacob Munkholm Hoeck said. The animal wandered around the zoo until an employee noticed it and called a security team. “The veterinarian of the zoo anaesthetized the panda and he was brought back to the enclosure,” Hoeck said. “There he was given an antidote and woke up a couple of minutes later.” Xing Er was not harmed and there were no human injuries. Bengt Holst, the zoo’s chief scientist, said in a statement that security around the enclosure will be “carefully examined” to “make sure (it) doesn’t happen again.” Xing Er and his female mate Mao Sun — who did not take part in his escape — arrived in Denmark in April 2019, on loan from the Chinese city of Chengdu. (SD-Agencies) |