Cheetah Escapes Omaha Zoo, Triggering Lockdown

Last week, a 60-pound cheetah escaped her enclosure in a Nebraska zoo, triggering a red-alert lockdown procedure.  The cheetah, a five-year-old female named Gretchen, managed to slip out of her fenced-in habitat within Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. She was wandering around the nearby safari exhibit when zoo staff spotted her.  In a press […]