The missing lynx and five other animal escapees including Ken Allen the Orangutan

Flaviu the lynx is still on the run after escaping from Dartmoor zoo.

While the local rabbit population has every right to feel concerned, pretty much everyone else is loving the story.

The zoo is confident Flaviu will be recaptured after he tunnelled to freedom earlier this week. Anyone who spots him is being urged to call 999.

But his name is already guaranteed to go down on the list of other animal great escapes. Here are some of Newsbeat's favourites.

Looks like butter wouldn't melt in his mouth but Ken was a master criminal, pure and simple. In the 1980s, he became a legend at San Diego zoo for escaping not just once but on multiple occasions.

Known as the "Hairy Houdini", his keepers were baffled by his ability to break out.

"As a youngster, he unscrewed the nuts and removed the metal mesh top of his supposedly 'child-proof' playpen so he could ramble around the nursery for the night," says the zoo., external

By the time he was an adult, this career criminal was playing the zoo for fools. He even showed a young, impressionable orangutan how to use a branch as a crowbar to break out.

His exploits earned him a fan club, Ken Allen T-shirts, bumper stickers and even his own song...

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For a moment back in 1998, Butch and her brother Sundance were the two most famous pigs on the planet.

As they were being unloaded from a lorry to an abattoir in Wiltshire, their future looked pretty bleak.

But in an astonishing display of bravery, the five-month-olds made a dash for it. Holed up in local shrubbery for a week, news teams from across the world joined the hunt for our two heroes.

They were eventually captured - but the nation had fallen in love with them - and they lived out the rest of their lives as star attractions at a rare breeds centre.

This two-tonne beast was a wonderful opportunist. Pole-vaulting to the outside world was never going to be an option.

In 2010, a flood swamped her zoo in Montenegro. As the water levels rose, she simply swam over the top of her enclosure.

She enjoyed her freedom for 10 days, taking in the delights of the local area before deciding she'd had enough.

With her keepers watching her every move, she calmly padded back through the open door of her cage.

Another serial escapee.

Sylvester somehow kept his wonderful mane out of harm's way when he crawled under an electric fence at Karoo National Park in South Africa last year.

He celebrated his freedom by going on a three-week killing bender, finishing off 30 sheep across 180 miles. He was recaptured after being found having a nap.

But he escaped again and the park rangers said he might have to be put down to avoid him killing any people.

A Save Sylvester campaign followed and his life was spared. He's now been moved to another park where he's joined two young female lions.

Birds can fly so escaping shouldn't really be that impressive.

But in Chuva's case, his wings were clipped and his vanishing act is still a mystery.

He went missing from Vancouver Zoo's Parrot Gardens in 2009. The macaw's keepers assumed he'd just waddled off somewhere but he couldn't be found.

The zoo put out an alert across the local area. Three days later, they got the call they'd been hoping for.

He wasn't up a tree or on a telephone wire.

He was 20 miles away, hiding inside a family's motor home. In the engine compartment.

Begrudgingly, he returned. Unruffled and unscathed.

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