Marian Thompson - shown with her late husband, Terry - is trying to reclaim six exotic animals being held at a zoo.
(CHRIS COOK/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Escaped exotic animals to stay in zoo for now
Marian Thompson - shown with her late husband, Terry - is trying to reclaim six exotic animals being held at a zoo.
(CHRIS COOK/ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The six surviving exotic animals freed by their suicidal owner in Ohio will be kept under quarantine at a zoo for now instead of going to the man’s widow, the state Agriculture Department ordered yesterday. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium was trying to stop Marian Thompson from reclaiming three leopards, two primates, and a young grizzly bear that have been cared for by the zoo since last week, when Terry Thompson mysteriously set them free in a rural area of eastern Ohio.
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