8 October 2014 Last updated at 10:19
A raccoon which escaped from a touring Russian animal show evaded searchers for two weeks by hiding close to home, it's reported.
"Cheeky" Venya the raccoon outsmarted his handlers by camping out in the very building hosting the "World of Animals" exhibit while a search party scoured the city of Smolensk looking for him, The Moscow Times reports. Meanwhile, food was disappearing in the building and someone appeared to be scattering talcum powder around the place, says the organizer of the exhibit, Alexei. "Raccoons can climb up trees to a height of 30m. They live in burrows and hollows, and at night they come down in search of food. So with Venya, it seems, his natural instincts were awakened," Alexei tells local news outlet Smolenskaya Gazeta. Venya was born and raised in captivity and local reports say he's not capable of surviving in the wild.
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