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Of that fence. there is a tree up there on one side of the electric fence that hangs over. that could have been one of the escape routes. zoo officials say they'll look at surveillance cameras, do the best they can to trace rusty's movements between 6:00 p.m. sunday when he was last sighted and 7:30 monday morning when they noticed him gone. >> we're going to look at every aspect of the exhibit. we will not let this happen again. >> reporter: even though rusty shows no visible signs of injury or illness right now, zoo officials say they're going to keep him in their veterinary hospital for at ...

Officials quite a scare for several hours today. they finally caught a break when a local resident spotted him, called them and tweeted a photo. but rusty had gotten more than a half a mile away and into a busy neighborhood before he was finally secured. captured, crated, on the way home. rusty the red panda, not even a year old missing from washington's national zoo for several hours. he made his way into a busy neighborhood off zoo grounds before being captured safely. brandy smith, a senior zoo curator involved in the capture tells how a zoo team lured him into their grasp after surrounding...

Rusty was born in captivity. could he have survived on his own? we asked smith what dangers he faced outside the zoo. >> i think the biggest danger is if he ate any inappropriate food. >> anything other than bamboo or any other food prepared by his keepers. for the moment, zoo officials say rusty has no visible signs of injury or illness. we pressed a zoo spokeswoman on another key question. how in the world do you lose a red panda? how did it happen? >> well, we don't know right now. complete honesty. we do not know. that habitat has housed red pandas for several years. no one has escaped fro...