--- title: Bongo Named Taylor Swift Escapes Zoo, Causes Evacuation description: An adventurous namesake of Taylor Swift, a bongo calf, escaped from a Sacramento Zoo on Sunday, prompting evacuations. canonical: https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-16T15:26:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:29.059Z og:title: Escape by 'Taylor Swift' Animal Results in Zoo Evacuation og:description: Look at what you made them do og:url: https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e3813e4e948072d/69893cb1096a943c306a3afd/taylor-swfit-bongo-calf-escapes-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bongos relaxing on the ground og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Escape by 'Taylor Swift' Animal Results in Zoo Evacuation twitter:description: Look at what you made them do twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e3813e4e948072d/69893cb1096a943c306a3afd/taylor-swfit-bongo-calf-escapes-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Daring Escape by 'Taylor Swift' the Zoo Animal Results in Evacuation  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 16, 2018 3:26 PM UTC  Picture shows some bongos relaxing on the ground. Picture shows some bongos relaxing on the ground.Akatjomar—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 16, 2018 3:26 PM UTC An adventurous namesake of [Taylor Swift](http://time.com/5049659/taylor-swift-interview-person-of-the-year-2017/)‘s lived out her [wildest dreams](http://time.com/4020783/taylor-swift-wildest-dreams-director-defends-controversy/) when she escaped her enclosure at the Sacramento Zoo on Sunday. According to [_CBS Sacramento_](https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/10/14/escaped-animal-sacramento-zoo/), Taylor Swift, a bongo antelope calf, broke out of her space that she shares with her mother, Penny and then made her way into a common area, to presumably assemble a squad of model best friends. Unfortunately for Swift the Bongo, however, the zoo staff staged an intervention by evacuating visitors the space so they could safely capture and return Swift to her enclosure. In a press release, the zoo revealed that Taylor Swift returned to her enclosure within 15 minutes of her breakout and that the Bongo did not experience any major injuries from her escape. The zoo staff does not know how or why Taylor Swift was able to escape her exhibit space. Taylor Swift the singer has not yet weighed in on the matter. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/"},"headline":"Daring Escape by 'Taylor Swift' the Zoo Animal Results in Evacuation","datePublished":"2018-10-16T15:26:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:29.059Z","description":"Look at what you made them do","url":"https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e3813e4e948072d/69893cb1096a943c306a3afd/taylor-swfit-bongo-calf-escapes-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3e3813e4e948072d/69893cb1096a943c306a3afd/taylor-swfit-bongo-calf-escapes-zoo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bongos relaxing on the ground","caption":"Bongos relaxing on the ground","creditText":"Akatjomar—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5425876/taylor-swift-zoo/","name":"Daring Escape by 'Taylor Swift' the Zoo Animal Results in Evacuation"}}]}] ```