Pessac
Early Monday evening, on the roads of Gironde and under the bewildered eyes of motorists, tigers, lions, chimpanzees and otters in cages crossed a good part of the department.
That day, the zoo of La Teste-de-Buch, which spreads over 22 hectares, found itself threatened by the toxic fumes emanating from the fires which devoured the local forests.
Tuesday afternoon, the site had finally been spared from the flames, which however died out just a few hundred meters from the enclosures.
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Of the 850 animals in the zoo, 370 were transferred to an annex of the Pessac zoo, located about sixty kilometers from the Arcachon basin.
In the shade of the trees, the animals arrived drop by drop on Monday evening on this plot of a hundred square meters.
“We welcomed the animals that were the easiest to transport: beasts that were asleep beforehand, birds, sloths,
explains Mathieu Danquechin-Dorval, the director of the Zoo…
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