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 One of the City’s Red Pandas has escaped from the Zoo and has been seen in the Sequoia Park forest behind the Zoo. The Red Panda is NOT a danger to humans. Zoo staff is concerned for the safety of the Red Panda. City staff along with EPD are searching for the panda. If anyone sees the Red Panda, please don’t try to approach or capture. Please call 499-3668 or Eureka Police Dispatch at 441-4044. 
 
 Masala, a young red panda, is missing from the Sequoia Park Zoo and thought to be in the Sequoia Park forest. City staff and the Eureka Police Department are searching for her.Gretchen Ziegler, zoo manager, said staff got a report late this afternoon from "someone in the community that they saw a red panda in their neighborhood." At that point staff confirmed that an animal was missing from its enclosure."We have no idea how she got over the fence," said Ziegler. "It's contained red pandas since it was built. Animals can do things you can't imagine. We're going to try to figure it out."Ziegler added that there are a number of concerns about Masala's safety."She's only been in the panda exhibit her whole life so she's pretty naive. We'll be searching all day and all night," she said.More information about what to do if you see Masala is below.From the City of Eureka: 

 Marsala, safe and well and back at the zoo. Thank you Eureka! 
 
 Late Saturday evening, Masala was seen and safely captured in the vicinity of the Zoo. Thank you to the many volunteers and members of the community who participated in her search and spread the word.
– A red panda made a break for it between feeding times Thursday at California's Sequoia Park Zoo—and now staffers are frantically searching for it, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Masala, a fully grown female described by the zoo as being the "size of a domestic cat," was discovered to be missing when the zoo got a report saying a red panda had been spotted roaming around a Eureka-area neighborhood, per the North Coast Journal. "We have no idea how she got over the fence," Gretchen Ziegler, the zoo's manager, tells the North Coast Journal. "It's contained red pandas since it was built. Animals can do things you can't imagine." Although staff stress that Masala isn't a danger to people, they're concerned because she could be hit by a car or preyed on by another animal, or she may not be able to find a steady supply of food (she eats bamboo) or water. Masala is also said to be "pretty naive" and "vulnerable," per the manager. "She's never been out of the exhibit," Ziegler tells the Mercury News. (A tiger that escaped a flooded zoo earlier this year was "liquidated.")