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Helena, the Staten Island Zoo's runaway fox, as seen in the woods near Portland Place in Brighton Heights.

(Photo courtesy of Marion Land)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The runaway red fox who was returned to the Staten Island Zoo after she burrowed out of her enclosure and escaped the West Brighton facility will remain quarantined for one to two weeks.

Zoo officials want to make sure seven-month-old Helena didn't pick up anything that could be spread to other animals during her six days on the lam, spokesman Brian Morris told the Advance.

The fox “is now in the Zoo’s animal hospital, where she will rest and receive a full medical evaluation before she is put back on exhibit in the near future,” the Zoo posted on its Facebook page Monday afternoon.

Helena, who escaped on Nov. 25, was captured safely more than a mile and a half away from the Zoo Sunday night, in a wooded lot by the intersection of Portland Place and Stanley Avenue in Brighton Heights.

Residents of Portland Place said they formed a “community watch” after seeing Helena dart in and out of the woods by their property over the weekend. They called the Zoo, and when officials couldn’t catch the vixen directly, they placed some traps in the area.

Helena tripped one of the traps Sunday night.