![]() ![]() Security workers cleared the River's Edge area and all zoo visitors were told to get inside a building. Grisham said a visitor noticed the loose cheetah and notified a zoo worker. ![]() ![]() 10, 2006, at the zoo _ the first new litter here since 1992. The cheetah, a female named Zuri, weighs 40 to 45 pounds (18.1 to 20.4 kilograms), Grisham said. It could have been the cats playing with one another and it made the lucky jump _ or unlucky jump." "We have no idea how the cat got up there," said Jack Grisham, vice president of animal collection for the zoo, on Tuesday. Twenty-seven minutes later, the cheetah was found, tranquilized and returned unharmed to its exhibit. The cheetah scaled a wall at least 10 feet (three meters) tall on Monday and got into a rocky area that separates animals from people at the River's Edge exhibit. Louis Zoo officials were trying to figure out how a year-old cheetah managed to get out of its exhibit. ![]()
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