Zoo Animals Released During Riot

CHICAGO The Lincoln Park Zoo said in a statement Monday that all animals in the zoo are accounted for and safe and rumors spreading on social media that the zoo was broken into and looted.

Zoo animals released during riot. Social media was full on Saturday of reports and reactions to reports that several animals had been set loose including a lion. By ALI SWENSONJune 2 2020 GMT. A video circulating on social media appears to show someone slipping through the gates of the bronx zoo as the city was engulfed by george floyd protests and looting monday night.

Zoo animals were released during protests in Chicago. KGO -- On Sunday the Alameda County Sheriff reported a tiger on the loose near the Oakland. All animals at lincoln park zoo are accounted for and safe.

All animals at Lincoln Park Zoo are accounted for and safe on June 1 2020. With the area under a curfew amidst riots many believed the reports. One animal would be spared until the end it said a nearly 12.

Widespread social media posts on Sunday and Monday claimed animals at the Oakland Zoo the Philadelphia Zoo and Chicagos Lincoln Park Zoo were set free or stolen during the weekends riots. Zoo Animals Released 2020 Riots. The zoo in Germany said its drastic plan would only be a last resort.

Chicagos Lincoln Park Zoo dispelled rumors Monday that its animals were let loose out of their habitats by looters as protests against the death of George Floyd were underway. 2020 isnt at the level of zoo animals running through New York just yet. Earlier this week the Bronx Zoo revealed that a 4-year-old Malayan tiger tested positive for the new coronavirus after she and six other tigers and lions developed a dry cough.

CHICAGO WLS -- Rumors on social media went viral after word started to spread that looters released animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo Sunday but those rumors turned out to be false. While image of giraffe dates back to 2014 at least the two images of hippopotamus are from South Africa and Spain respectively. Did Antifa rioters break into a zoo and let loose giraffe tiger and hippopotamus on the streets in America.