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Supposedly, Animals Didn’t Escape New Jersey Zoo Storm

CLAIM: Images show that a variety of wild animals are loose in South Orange, New Jersey after they escaped overnight from the Turtle Back Zoo when the remnants of Hurricane Ida caused flooding at the facility.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. These images are old. Turtle Back Zoo tweeted on Thursday that its animals “weathered the storm well and remain safe and secure within the facility.”

THE FACTS: Lions, crocodiles, penguins and gorillas are not roaming the streets of South Orange, New Jersey, despite a hoax that was circulating widely the morning after severe flash flooding in the area.

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Cow Rescued from Tree after Hurricane Ida

A rescue crew in Louisiana came to the aid of a cow found wedged in a tree above the floodwaters left behind by Hurricane Ida.

The St. Bernard Parish government said in a Facebook post that parish employees Tyler Acosta, David Palmer and Roy Ragan Sr. teamed up with private citizen Louis Pomes to rescue a cow found stuck in a tree near the Florissant Highway.

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Michigan Police Chase Emu

Police in Michigan said they ended up in an unusual chase when a call initially thought to be a joke led to finding a loose emu wandering around town.

The Shepherd Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers initially suspected they were being pranked when the call came in from Isabella County Central Dispatch about an “escaped feathered animal” on the loose in the village.

Officers who arrived on the scene were surprised to see the wandering emu, a large, flightless bird native to Australia.

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Elderly Woman Injured in Colorado Moose Attack

A 79-year-old woman was seriously injured Friday night after a moose stomped her in a Glenwood Springs, Colorado, yard while she walked a dog on a leash.

The woman, who has not been identified publicly, told Colorado Parks & Wildlife that she was dog-sitting at the residence and saw the mother moose and two calves in the front yard earlier in the day.

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Seagull Hits Teen in the Face While on Amusement Ride

Georgia Reed, 14, and Kiley Holman, 13, who live near Weatherly, Pennsylvania, got quite the surprise visitor while on a ride at Morey’s Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey earlier this month.

Georgia was celebrating her 14th birthday while on vacation and decided to go on the SpringShot ride at the amusement park.

Video shows the two teenagers get fired into the air and then, shockingly, Kiley comes face-to-face with a seagull.

“When I got shot up, then I saw it. It was going the opposite way and then it came back and hit me right in the face,” Kiley said. “It felt really light and it only left like the tiniest scratch.”

Kiley was able to remove the bird and it seemingly flew away uninjured.

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Indian Monkey Drinks Bottle of Kahlua

A liquor-loving macaque broke into a bottle shop in Madhya Pradesh, India, this week and brazenly drank a bottle of Kahlua in front of the shop’s owner.

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Wolf-German Shepherd Hybrids Loose in North Carolina?

CEDAR GROVE, N.C. (WNCN) – A CBS 17 viewer believes they spotted the four wolf-German shepherd hybrid dogs that remain on the loose in Orange County.

So far, Animal Control has successfully caught eight of the originally 12 escaped dogs, and are hoping the “strange environment” will make them fearful enough to walk into one of the traps, Orange County Animal Services spokeswoman Tenille Fox said.

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