Officials at the National Zoo in Washington defended the trapping and euthanising of a wild red fox last week, even as they acknowledged they couldn’t confirm it was the same one that broke in this month and killed 25 flamingos and a duck.
The massacre occurred before the zoo opened on 2 May, when the predator - believed to have come from nearby Rock Creek Park - probably entered through a baseball-size hole in the habitat’s heavy mesh fencing, zoo officials said.
