UPI – A zoo in England is requesting the public’s help in locating four female raccoons that escaped from the facility.
The Amazon World Zoo Park, located near Sandown on the Isle of Wight, reported that the raccoons broke out of their enclosure sometime between late Thursday night and early Friday morning.
“If you have a sighting please do not approach them, they are not normally aggressive but will be scared,” the zoo said on social media on Saturday.
Officials asked residents to check sheds and bonfire pits, as the animals “sleep during the day and become active at dusk”.
The zoo’s supervisor Rowena Welsh said a search has been launched for the masked fugitives.
“They are new here. Everyone is out searching and we have tracker dogs and drones looking for them,” she told The Guardian.
