A bighorn sheep escaped from the Los Angeles Zoo at Griffith Park and dashed around the hills in the park for hours before it ended up on a residential street where it was struck by a car and died, a zoo spokeswoman said.
The sheep got free from its enclosure and darted through an area where zoo visitors were gathered.
It escaped the zoo, probably by jumping a fence, and scampered around the hills of the park, said zoo spokeswoman April Spurlock.