UPDATE, 2:34 p.m.: Orchid has come down from the tree and is back in an enclosure, zoo spokesperson Tessa Miller said.
Original post: A clouded leopard escaped its keepers at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma on Friday morning.
Zoo spokesperson Tessa Miller said Orchid, one of the zoo’s clouded leopards, didn’t return to her home behind the scenes at the zoo’s Wild Wonders Outdoor Theater during the zoo’s daily 11:30 a.m. live animal show. Orchid climbed a tree behind the theater away from guests and is not a danger to guests or zoo staff, Miller told The News Tribune…