{"id":411084,"date":"2026-07-24T18:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T18:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:58:18","slug":"leopard-escapes-enclosure-forces-south-carolina-zoo-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411084\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopard escapes enclosure, forces South Carolina zoo evacuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse ouIFx uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">No injuries were reported, and the leopard is safely back in her habitat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WTVD logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/origin-wtvd.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 24, 2026 3:34PM<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported, and zoo officials said the leopard is safely back in her habitat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">GREENVILLE, S.C. &#8212; Visitors at the Greenville Zoo in South Carolina were evacuated after a leopard escaped its enclosure Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Zoo officials said Irina, a 4-year-old leopard, got out of her habitat and was roaming somewhere inside the zoo. As a precaution, visitors were quickly ushered out while staff activated an emergency response plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Teams tracked Irina&#8217;s location, safely tranquilized her and returned her to her enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">No injuries were reported, and zoo officials said the leopard is safely back in her habitat. The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WTVD-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No injuries were reported, and the leopard is safely back in her habitat. Friday, July 24, 2026 3:34PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[164650,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-411084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-164650","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}