One of world's most endangered animals, Bongo antelope breaks out of Fort Worth Zoo
FORT WORTH (CBSDW.COM) - One of the world's most endangered animals, a Mountain Bongo (antelope) busted out of the Fort Worth Zoo the morning of Dec. 16.
The critically endangered subspecies of the Bongo, one of the largest forest antelopes, with a reddish-brown coat, with black, white and yellow-white markings was seen on Colonial Parkway.
The zoo told CBS11 that the Bongo got her horn stuck in perimeter fencing. Zoo staff noticed she was in distress and she pushed through the fencing, breaking out of her habitat.
There were no injuries to staff, zoo guests or the Bongo.
CBS11 viewer Jonathan Mabry recorded footage as zoo wranglers tried to corral the animal. He said the Bongo ran free for about 40 minutes.
The Mountain Bongo is associated with the montane forests in the Kenya highlands and is recorded to have become extinct in Kenya in 1995.
As of January 2020, the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the animal as critically endangered.