Elephant escapes

I was delighted to read in the news that an elephant at the Albuquerque Zoo, name of Alice, managed to get out of her habitat. The employees showed up to open the zoo and Alice was just moseying around the zoo, I guess. 

The city where I currently live used to have an elephant named Princess Alice who also went walkabout sometimes. In her case, she'd go walkabout around town, not just the zoo. She was apparently a pretty sassy elephant, according to some of the newspaper articles I've read about her. 

Honestly, I think the Alice the elephants maybe are onto something. Sometimes, you just need a break, a little change of pace, some new scenery. 

Just out of curiosity, I checked how frequently elephants make an escape. AI says on average, 6 times a year (at least between 1990 and 2017). So that's fun. Also, be careful if you see an escaped elephant. It doesn't say why, but escaped elephants can be a risky situation. Not sure if it's just that they are big, but also not sure it needs to be anything else. 

Anyway, here's to all the elephants shaking things up, and to anyone else who gets to escape for a bit.