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SINGAPORE: Six deer escaped from the Night Safari at the Singapore Zoological Gardens on Wednesday morning.
Five have been found but one is still missing, although it is believed to be within the Night Safari park.
The fifth deer was caught in the evening at Mandai Lake Road. It had to be sedated. It took about one and a half hours to bring the deer back to its enclosure.
The Sambar deer are all female and were found missing during a routine check by a zookeeper.
One of them had managed to get out of the Night Safari's perimeter fence. A tree had fallen on the fence, allowing the deer to walk out of the park's boundaries.
Kumar Pillai, director of zoology at Wildlife Reserves Singapore, said: "(At) the Deer Park, we've got the primary enclosure and if for some reason the animals do come out of there, we have a secondary fence to keep the animals in. But it's the secondary fence that got damaged by the fallen tree and they got out of the park."
It is the first time the deer have escaped from their enclosure.
In a separate incident, the Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS) rescued three wild Sambar deer in Mandai.
Army personnel had informed WRS that deer were seen at the range. When the WRS team arrived at the scene, they found three Sambar deer cornered in the perimeter fence of the range.
One animal was found dead on the scene with neck injuries and the remaining two animals were greatly stressed and weak.
WRS vets sedated and ascertained the conditions of the dangerously weakened animals and quickly brought them back to the WRS, which is a designated rescued wildlife centre.
Unfortunately, WRS vets were only able to save one of the deer. It is currently recovering under their care.
- CNA/ir
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