Taiwanese cable news channels have been replaying footage of a bulky orangutan that escaped from his cage at a Taiwan zoo and terrified restaurant diners by overturning picnic tables.

The animal was from the Shaoshan Zoo in the southern city of Kaohsiung where a crocodile recently bit off a veterinarian's arm. The orangutan pushed his way out of his cage before moving in a nearby restaurant courtyard.

More than 50 snakes and lizards were stolen from an Australian wildlife park. A baby crocodile was also taken.

Workers found that someone had taken reptiles from tanks at the Wildlife Wonderland Park in southern Victoria state Sunday morning.

Steve Weinkseldaum was arrested on Tuesday as agents from the Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals were led to his home on a tip that he was boarding wild animals.

According to an AP report, agent Roy Gross said, "It appeared to be like I was walking into a rain forest" in his home, because "he had alligators stacked up. He had plants growing. It was tight to walk."

At least 10 stingray bodies have been found on two Australian beaches since "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin was fatally injured by one of the fish, and conservationists are worried people are killing them to avenge his death.

Michael Hornby, the executive director of Irwin's Wildlife Warriors conservation group told the AP, "It may be some sort of retribution, or it may be fear from certain individuals, or it just may be yet another callous act toward wildlife," adding the killing stingrays was "not what Steve was about."