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Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl, escaped New York City's Central Park Zoo on Thursday night after a vandal cut his enclosure's stainless steel mesh open.
A Eurasian eagle owl has escaped its enclosure at Central Park Zoo in New York City after vandals cut its stainless steel mesh cage.
An owl at the Central Park Zoo flew the coop after someone vandalized its exhibit by cutting through stainless steel mesh. Zoo officials say the Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco was discovered missing at 8:30 p.m. Thursday and remained on the loose Friday. New York Police Department officers tried to catch the bird after it was spotted on Fifth Avenue Thursday night, but it flew off. The owl returned to Central Park at sunrise Friday and spent the day high up in a tree there. Experts fear the owl will starve if it is not recaptured because it doesn't know how to hunt.