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A naughty panda bear provoked laughter and a little scared, after escaping from his confinement in a zoo in China .
Officials had to push back a crowd of excited zoo visitors, when Meng Lan, a A young, six-year-old male panda bear brazenly rushed towards them.
The dramatic escape took place at the Beijing Zoo on Wednesday and went filmed by excited zoo goers.
Meng Lan was lured back to his compound with food .
Authorities said they will reform the compound to prevent a similar incident from happening again in the future.
Numerous visitors to the Beijing Zoo had unplanned time with one of the park’s panda residents.
Meng Lan tried to escape the zoo, scaling the exhibit wall in front of a group of surprised tourists.
Video of the incident shows Meng Lan first scaling the six-foot-high metal fence that surrounds his compound and then entering a transition zone that separates the site from the area open to visitors It’s from the zoo.
Another clip shows the curious bear poking its head out of the transition zone and looking at the visitors surrounding its habitat.
Meng Lan never entered an area of the zoo that is accessible to the public.
After Meng Lan’s escape, the zookeepers quickly lured the animal into their enclosure with food.
No pandas or people were injured during Meng Lan’s antics, Newsflare reported.
The Beijing Zoo posted about the escape attempt from the panda on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, calling the bear’s behavior “naughty.”
Meng Lan isn’t the only panda who recently spent time greeting the zoo visitors.
On Saturday, the panda twins at the zoo d e Beauval, Huanlili and Yuandudu, made their public debut. The cubs were born in August and are only the second and third pandas born in France.
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