WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A red panda that spent two days on the lam after escaping from an Australian zoo was recaptured Sunday after he was spotted hanging out in a fig tree in a nearby park.

A red panda escaped from an Australian zoo just days after arrival. Ravi, just 7 years old, managed to break out of the zoo and was found in a fig tree at a nearby park.

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It wasn't until Sunday morning that a zookeeper spotted him in the fig tree in the nearby botanic park. A red panda photographed at Cotswold Wildlife Park in Oxfordshire, England, on March 28, 2014.

Ravi the red panda is pictured in a tree on Sunday. “Ravi’s doing really well,” Phil Ainsley, the director of the zoo, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Ravi, a 7 year old red panda, is caged after being found in a tree near the zoo he escaped from days earlier, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, in Adelaide, Australia.