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 didnt 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.
'Hes 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Unless they actually observed the chimps building the ladder, give it time, we will find out someone “helped” them along.
Obama?
Ok, I'll take the liberty of posting the gif myself
Next they’ll be sitting down at typewriters and typing out Webster’s dictionary.
“An inquiry is now underway to determine what happened.
...??????.....didn’t they just say what happen?”
LMAO! I don’t know why I find your comment funny, but it’s hilarious.
Voting for Obama and his Democrats perhaps?
They already have jobs at the NYT.
“An inquiry is now underway to determine what happened.”
“It was a mistake for the Zoo to play Pink Floyd on the sound system.”
Also banned, due to said inquiry, will be the following:
Band on the Run
Born to be Wild
We Gotta Get out of This Place
Crazy Train.....etc
When I was going to college, I would take a short cut through a biology building, which allowed me to pass by cages with small primates, perhaps gibbons. I knew they kept Chimpazees in the building, and to my surprise I was greeted by a chimp approaching in the opposite direction. We both sort of ignored each other, but I wondered what he was doing roaming the halls. About a week later, the doors to that hallway were permanently locked.
You were damn LUCKY!!
OK explain? Don’t you talk about Pink Floyd, Pink Floyd are Musical geniuses! Just curious what you mean?
I was being sarcastic. Hope it didn’t come off badly. Sorry.
PF's greatest concert was in front of the recently defunct Berlin Wall. Suprised you didn't associate the connection.
A little bird told him.
Oh shoot. I should have know that. It was the last time they played as a full group I think. Thanks for the reminder. Blonde moment today.
I suspect 99.99% of all human-chimp encounters are uneventful. It’s that other 0.01%. I was lucky, but I was cautious, I didn’t make eye contact or approach the animal and got away calmly, and promptly. I noticed that there was a USDA car parked behind the building for about a week after the doors to that section of building were locked. I think someone realized that that outfit needed adult supervision.
No Problem.
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