Escaped Monkey Returns To Zoo - Waits Outside Door

[matcom]

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SAN DIEGO -- Freedom isn't all that great. At least to one escaped monkey.

Takala, a golden-bellied mangabey, got out of the new monkey exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Friday. But he was found less than an hour later, waiting to get back inside.

Zookeepers said they were searching for Takala, when they opened an outside door to the monkey exhibit and he walked right in. Officials had moved visitors away from the area while searching for the monkey.

Officials said Takala escaped through a hole in the netting around the enclosure. But they're not sure if Takala actually made the hole or just found it.

The $28 million Monkey Trails and Forest Tales exhibit opened this month and has been promoted by the zoo as a more natural and visitor-friendly setting than its original monkey habitat.

http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4629257/detail.html

[xultar]

1. So, matcom what did you do on your little adventure Friday?

:rofl:

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Stockholm syndrome.

[MindPilot]

3. A day that Ken Allen escaped

SD Zoo used to have an Orangutan named Ken Allen. Ken died a couple years ago but during his life at the zoo he was the ultimate escape artist.

I was there one day when he slipped out, wandered around to the other side of the exhibit and stood silently with the humans looking at the other Orangutans. Of course panic ensued once he was noticed, and one of the keepers came and lead Ken by the hand back to his enclosure.

To anyone who thinks animals don't have a sense of humor, you should have seen that orangutan laughing his hairy ass off at the panicked humans.

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

5. Funny story. Thanks. n/t

[underpants]

4. It probably flopped on Jasper's couch over the weekend

and saw what life is like on the outside and decided it was better back at the zoo.

[matcom]

7. poor Jasper

a permanent member of the underground

[zbdent]

6. Isn't San Diego rather conservative?

You know how hard it is to get someone to get "free food" in a red area . . .