A red panda named “Barney” escaped from his enclosure at a zoo in German꧒y and was none too pleased when he was captured and brought back.
The pesky critter was di🌄scovered missing from his home at the Cologne Zoo on Thursday.
Zoo employees soon spotted Barney high up in a tree outside of the🌌 enclosure, the zoo .
Barney, zoo offi♔cials said, “could not be persuaded to leave on his own accord.”
Photos showed the red panda staring down at onloo🎃kers, seemingly basking in the f🍃act that he was beyond their reach.
In need of assistance, the zoo called the local fire department. Using a ladder൲ truck, the first responders were able to bring B🌜arney back down to safety.
A video posted 🌞by the zoo shows Barney scrambling away on snowy tree limbs when firওefighters reached him in the canopy.
“The zookeepers caught the little panda on the ground and released him back into his enclosure,” the zoo wrote on social media.
Barney, back in his enclosure, was “g♔rumbling sl♚ightly,” the zoo said.
Zoo officials believe 😼he used a piece of bamboo that was bent under the weight of recent snowfall to make his daring escape.
The red panda has🦂 been living at the Cologne 🅰Zoo since 2015.
Despite their name, red pandas are not closely relat🔯ed to the black and white Great Panda.
The❀y are endangered, with only about 10,000 remaining in the wild in their native region in the Himalayas, .
Slightly larger than a domestic cat, th🃏ey are known for their elite climꦍbing abilities and spend most of their lives in trees. They use their long, bushy tails to keep them warm in the winter months.
Red pandas have a reputation as escape artists.
In 2022, a red panda broke out of its enclosure at an Australian zoo before it was later found in a fig tree. Another one went missing from an Ohio zoo in 2020. A female red panda seeking out a potential mate slipped out of a Virginia zoo in 2017.