They had probably been stolen.

Two missing emperor tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo have been found alive, authorities said on Tuesday evening.

The police discovered around 4:50 p.m. the two primates "in an abandoned house in Lancaster", a city located about thirty kilometers from Dallas, they said on Twitter.

Police, who say they received a tip on the whereabouts of the monkeys, accompanied their message with a photo of one of the primates 'inside a closet in the house' and said the animals had been returned at the zoo.


Dallas Police, with the help of the Lancaster Police Department, located the two missing tamarin monkeys from the Dallas Zoo at an abandoned home in Lancaster.


Pictured is one of the animals still inside the closet of the house.


The monkeys have been returned to the zoo.

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— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) February 1, 2023

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The zoo robbed?

The menagerie of this major oil city in Texas, which reported to law enforcement on Monday the disappearance of the two little monkeys, said it was "extremely relieved" in a post on social networks.

"They will be examined by our veterinarians tonight," the Dallas Zoo said.

"We believe the animals were deliberately removed from the enclosure," Dallas police said in a statement, without naming any suspects or potential motives.

These small monkeys with the imposing white mustache, which inhabit the forests of South America, “generally do not stray far from the house”, she specified.

Zoo officials, for their part, had pointed out that “their enclosure had been damaged on purpose”.

Other suspicious acts

The Dallas Zoo is just recovering from the death of a vulture.

The animal was found last week with an "atypical injury", leading authorities to believe that his death was not due to a natural cause.



On January 13, a rare clouded leopard escaped from the menagerie through an intentionally cut breach in its enclosure.

The feline named Nova had been recovered after a vast mobilization, involving in particular drones with infrared vision of the police.

Later, zoo workers discovered a similar breach in the cage of langurs, a species of Asian monkey.

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