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Subject: The Champ (Chimp)
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leggys11 16.04.14 - 03:45pm
Clever chimps at Kansas City Zoo make brief break to freedom
Fri, Apr 11 01:57 AM EDT
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY (Reuters) - Seven chimpanzees used an improvised ladder from a tree to scale a wall and briefly escape their enclosure at the Kansas City Zoo on Thursday, a zoo official said.
One of the chimps apparently pulled a log or a branch and leaned it against the wall of the enclosure, giving the primates a leg-up to the top, zoo director Randy Wisthoff said.
The animals did not have any contact with zoo visitors, as they escaped into an area reserved for zookeepers, he added. There are 12 chimps in total at the zoo, which was closed after the incident.
We had a ringleader, Wisthoff said. He got up on the log and got some others to join him.
Using food to entice them, the zookeepers herded the wayward chimps back into an indoor enclosure. The chimps were on the loose for around an hour.
Wisthoff said zoo staff regularly checks trees in the area of the chimpanzees for fallen limbs but in this case a chimp apparently pulled a log or large limb out of a tree.
Chimps are so much stronger than humans, Wisthoff said, adding that they are also very smart.
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ementalm 16.04.14 - 03:46pm
planet of the apes has started * +
peta 16.04.14 - 03:48pm
You don't say.. * +
convictor 16.04.14 - 03:49pm
im against keeping animals in zoos and the likes and would love to see them returned to their natural habitat, but alas, they would be slaughtered wholesale in Africa for their meat and momentos, so as distasteful as it is, they're safer there. * +
leggys11 16.04.14 - 03:50pm
A lil humour is needed about right now in general 
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ementalm 16.04.14 - 03:51pm
do you have the same thoughts when eating beef lamb or chicken convictor, no animals safe anywhere * +
ogdenz 16.04.14 - 03:51pm
Dangerous fkrs chimps. * +
ementalm 16.04.14 - 03:51pm
stop monkeying aroundaround * +
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