At dawn this Friday, the Spanish national police intercepted eight camels and a llama as they walked alone through the streets of Madrid’s Carabanchel district. The animals escaped from Circo Quiros, located near this place.
“Several camels and a llama escaped from the circus in Madrid this evening,” is how the Spanish police shared with netizens when they bumped into animals in the middle of the road. “The police found them and processed them so that they could be returned safe and sound,” they said in a post on Twitter.
“Thank God, nothing happened,” Mati Muñoz, one of the people in charge of the circus, admitted to Agence France-Presse. Muñoz also said the circus had already noticed the disappearance of the camels and the llama after discovering that the electric fence around the animal enclosure had been cut. “We believe that the escape was due to the fact that animal rights groups cut the fence,” concluded Mati.
Camels (Camelus bactrianus) are native to the rocky deserts of Central and East Asia. Currently, the vast majority of them are domesticated.
