Monkey business
APE MAKES BID FOR FREEDOM AT EDINBURGH ZOO
IT'S the great escAPE!
Macaque monkey Yousef made a dramatic bid for freedom yesterday by breaking out of Edinburgh Zoo.
The four-year-old scaled an electric fence to escape his pen and ended up a mile away on the roof of the Capital Hotel.
The furry fugitive was finally surrounded by a team of zoo workers who watched as their colleague Darren McGarry, 39, fired tranquiliser darts at him. Keeper Lorna Hughes then got onto the roof to pick him up.
Hotel manager Will O'Donnell said: "It was pretty dramatic."
A zoo spokesman said: "We'll ensure it doesn't happen again."
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like how they say it wont happen again when the same species has escaped a few times in the last 12 months
By adam. Posted November 9 2009 at 2:15 AM.