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Chimps use branch to make ladder, escape Belfast Zoo
February 11, 2019 — 8.39am
Video filmed on Saturday by visitors to the Northern Ireland zoo showed several primates scaling a wall and perching atop it, with one walking down a path outside the enclosure.
Zookeeper Alyn Cairns said trees in the chimps' enclosure had been weakened by recent storms, allowing the animals to break them and fashion a ladder to escape.
He told the BBC, "They're intelligent primates and know they're not supposed to be out of their enclosure, so got back in themselves."
Two weeks ago a rare red panda escaped from the same zoo when its electric fences failed. The animal was recaptured in the driveway of a nearby house.
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe/chimps-use-branch-to-make-ladder-escape-belfast-zoo-20190211-p50wx8.html
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