Czech zoo names runaway red panda after convict

On his second day in residence at the Jihlavá Zoo, a male red panda that had only just been transferred from Germany made a run for it — and has now been branded for life, at the tender age of one. Zoo staff had placed him in a run designed for another bandit of the animal kingdom — the raccoon — to see how he would like it. But the lesser panda, as the species is also known, is a great climber and soon had made The Great Escape.