Atlas Obscura: Why Flamingos succeed at Escaping from the Zoo...

Atlas Obscura: Why Flamingos Succeed at Escaping from the Zoo while other Animals Fail 

When animals escape zoos, like when humans escape prisons, they're usually caught pretty quickly. Whether there's a mass break out, connected to some more devastating event—as in Tbilisi, Georgia, where a heavy flood over the weekend let loose lions, wolves and a hippopotamus onto city streets—or a lone run-away, like the Smithsonian Zoo's red panda or the Bronx Zoo Cobra, the animals rarely taste freedom for long. Unless, that is, they're flamingos...