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Panic at German zoo as five chimpanzees create makeshift ladder out of branches/jump out of pen
dailymail.co.uk ^
| 6-12-12
| Allan Hall
Posted on 07/12/2012 3:29:55 PM PDT by rawhide
A great ape escape caused panic in Germany when five clever chimpanzees broke out of their zoo compound, using a ladder they had fashioned together out of tree branches.
After scaling the wall on Wednesday, the primates were able to walk among the 2,500 visitors to Hanover's Experience Zoo.
While the chimps were content to taste life on the other side of the fence, a five year old girl and an an elderly man were hurt in the panic as staff hurriedly evacuated the park.
Four of the five chimps - seven in total live in the enclosure - tasted freedom and decided they didn’t like it much.
They wandered back to the enclosure on their own - but leader of the pack Maxi was enjoying himself on the outside.
'He took himself off to see the head gorilla,' said Simone Hagenmeyer, the zoo spokeswoman.
'He was a bit harder to coax back.
'He’s getting on a bit so we gave him a ladder to climb back into the enclosure.'
An inquiry is now underway to determine what happened.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chimpanzees
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:30:00 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:31:31 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: rawhide
Uh, isn’t this how RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES ended?
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:31:31 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: rawhide
'He’s getting on a bit so we gave him a ladder to climb back into the enclosure.'Monkey see, monkey do.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:36:40 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: rawhide
Constructed a ladder out of tree limbs . . . makes ‘em smarter than most liberals.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:37:10 PM PDT
by
Sudetenland
(Member of the BBB Club - Bye-Bye-Barry!!! President Barack "Down Low" Obama)
To: rawhide
An inquiry is now underway to determine what happened....??????.....didn't they just say what happen?
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:37:27 PM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Argus
The chimps must of seen the movie, too.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:37:58 PM PDT
by
johnthebaptistmoore
(The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
To: rawhide
Four of the five chimps - seven in total live in the enclosure - tasted freedom and decided they didn’t like it much. Democrats
To: rawhide
They can rip your FACE off!! They arew NOT cute.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:39:41 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Ann Archy
They can rip your FACE off!! They arew NOT cute. Rabid Democrats
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:41:38 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: rawhide
that’s great...i could imagine the conversation amongst the chimps....
Chimp 1- “damn this place stinks”...
Chimp 2- “thats because these damn germans never use deodorant and stink of BO!”
Chimp 3- “the food here sucks as well”
Chimp 4- “well sitting around here complaining won’t do any good”
Chimp 5- “got that straight...hey i have an idea- lets make a ladder out of those branches, get the hell out of here and walk to Belgium...i hear the waffles are good”...
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:42:34 PM PDT
by
God luvs America
(63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
To: TurboZamboni
Democrats RIP THE FACE OFF YOUR FAMILY ALSO!!!
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:45:47 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: rawhide
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Wait (not too long) for it. Apes, chimps, etc, may not be human but they are persons and as such as entitled to the same rights and protections as men.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:49:00 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
To: rawhide
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:50:40 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: rawhide
'He took himself off to see the head gorilla,' said Simone Hagenmeyer, the zoo spokeswoman.The Head Gorilla. Alrighty then.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:51:13 PM PDT
by
Covenantor
("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
To: rawhide
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:51:50 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(The patient is bleeding to death! Apply more leeches!)
To: I see my hands
And after that..."Here comes the bride"...
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:53:24 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: rawhide
It was a mistake for the Zoo to play Pink Floyd on the sound system.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:54:22 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: Covenantor
‘He took himself off to see the head gorilla,’ said Simone Hagenmeyer, the zoo spokeswoman.
He went to form an alliance against the humans.
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:54:58 PM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
07/12/2012 3:55:35 PM PDT
by
I see my hands
(It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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