Officials in a zoo in New York using drones to locate s missimg beaver

Missing male beaver in a Utica New York zoo,
@Deepizzaguy (108993)
Lake Charles, Louisiana
April 26, 2025 4:18pm CST
Officials with the Utica Zoo in New York are planning to use drones to find a male beaver named Cauliflower who is two years of age managed to escape on Wednesday evening April 16. The beaver has been missing for over a week which has caused the zoo executive director Andria Heath to contact a local drone operator to try and locate Cauliflower who came from a zoo in Minnesota a few weeks ago to look for a female friend. Hopefully Cauliflower will be found safe and sound soon. Link is upi.com/8051744734734 via @upi.
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8 responses
26 Apr
I do hope they find him soon. Using a drone is an excellent idea. He has been gone a while so let's hope he has found a safe place beside a river. Maybe he has already found a female friend. He might not want to be found.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
26 Apr
I am sure that the beaver does not to be located either only to return to the zoo.
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26 Apr
@Deepizzaguy As long as he is safe is all that matters. Would his life in the zoo be anything like a life in the wild.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
26 Apr
@Ineeddentures I am sure that beaver prefer being outdoors.
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@JudyEv (351572)
• Rockingham, Australia
22h
Drones are very useful at times. Cauliflower is a cute name for a beaver.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2h
That is true since I had a dog that is no longer with us named Cienfuegos which is a city in Cuba.
@snowy22315 (188325)
• United States
26 Apr
I hope so. He is a cute little rodent
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23h
I know what you mean.
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@RebeccasFarm (94137)
• Arvada, Colorado
9h
That is amazing.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2h
I am in agreement with you.
@RasmaSandra (84311)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
26 Apr
Probably something that beaver does not like, I hope he will be found safe and sound,
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
26 Apr
I hope so as well that the beaver is found safe and sound.
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@grenery8 (16209)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
3h
i also hope they will find him. didn't know they use drones for this kind of things.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2h
I have heard stories of drones being used to locate missing persons and sometimes animals.
@youless (112999)
• Guangzhou, China
13h
Did they check the cameras? I hope they will find some clues from the video recordings.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
2h
A camera did record when the beaver left the zoo.
@innertalks (22636)
• Australia
19h
I wonder if that beaver had cauliflower ears, being so named. The Zoo, need to provide more secure habitats, for their animals, if such escapes are possible, as this one.
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@Deepizzaguy (108993)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19h
Most likely why the beaver is called Cauliflower due to his ears.
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