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When a leopard escaped from the Dallas Zoo on January 13, it appeared at first to be an isolated incident—the sort of weird but mostly harmless news that regularly fills Texas Monthly’s Meanwhile, in Texas column. Twitter teemed with jokes about the zoo’s assurances that Nova the clouded leopard was “non-dangerous.” (At 25 pounds, Nova is closer in size to a house cat than a mountain lion—though if you’ve ever encountered a grouchy cat whose claws haven’t been trimmed, you know not to underestimate them.) After a day-long search, zookeepers found a confused but unharmed Nova still on zoo grounds, not far from her enclosure. While it was worrisome that someone had cut a hole in the leopard habitat and gotten away with it, the…

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