They are also very smart.

[grandmoon]

Clever chimps at Kansas City Zoo make brief break to freedom

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.

[pct001wine]

I can't stand zoos.  Life-term prisons for animals, no hope of parole.

I know how the zoo people justify this imprisonment, but it doesn't make me like them.

Simply awful and I refuse to set foot in one ever again.

[*crikey*mate*]

I know where the chimps were headed......

[Anonymous]

I saw him on a show once, cool little guy 🙂

[Anonymous]

Im like that with circuses, never been to one, never intend to. some dont have any animals, but still, Im not that interested.

Havent been to that many zoos either but lately Ive been thinking, maybe theyre the lucky ones, out of harms way. maybe it will end up that the only wild animals you will see, will be in a zoo.

[Anonymous]

whoops. scrap that, just found out who you are. ya never know who youre talking to around here. lol. now I know, it wont happen again.

[boris1gary]

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@pct001wine wrote:

I can't stand zoos.  Life-term prisons for animals, no hope of parole.

I know how the zoo people justify this imprisonment, but it doesn't make me like them.

Simply awful and I refuse to set foot in one ever again.

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Taronga is a great zoo, changed a lot over the years. Sadly without zoo's these days we would already have lost some species forever.I haven't been to any others though.

Taronga -   "Helping threatened species to breed, protecting their genetic diversity and even re-introducing them to the wild. We’re striving to be a centre for conservation excellence and through our work we aim to inspire individuals and communities."

[pct001wine]

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@just*duff wrote:

whoops. scrap that, just found out who you are. ya never know who youre talking to around here. lol. now I know, it wont happen again.

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Is this post meant for me ?

[Anonymous]

no, Halo