She was captured almost a month later on Rangitoto Island, in the Hauraki Gulf, after swimming an estimated 20 kilometres, and was returned to the zoo.
Jin escaped Auckland Zoo on 13 June 2006[1][2] because a nesting box was not adequately attached to an enclosure wall.
[6] At the time conservationists were concerned about the possibility of Jin entering Tiritiri Matangi Island, which is home to endangered species such as the takahē, as she might have predated upon them.
[12] While she was still loose, people on the Internet were sharing a recipe for a Swimming Jin cocktail recipe: gin, cucumber and pomegranate and the National Distribution Union made bumper stickers that said that finding Jin was easier than finding a good wage.
[14] She was moved in August 2006 to Christchurch's Willowbank Wildlife Reserve with the hope that she would procreate with an otter named Jala.
[15] Jin and Jala were moved to Wellington Zoo in November 2007 and were kept in quarantine for a month before the public could see them.