Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

monkeywire - [monkeywire] Monkey escapes; Woodland Park Zoo evacuated

monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: The #1 source for news about monkeys and apes

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: josh.greenman AT gmail.com
  • To: "monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org" <monkeywire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [monkeywire] Monkey escapes; Woodland Park Zoo evacuated
  • Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:55:32 +0000

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2008764856&zsection_id=&slug=monkey20m&date=20090220

Monkey escapes; Woodland Park Zoo evacuated

Friday, February 20, 2009 - Page updated at 05:30 a.m.

The Woodland Park Zoo was evacuated and locked down for about 45 minutes
Thursday morning after a small monkey escaped from an enclosure and ran off,
zoo officials said. By 11:25 a.m., zookeepers had found the 12-year-old male
DeBrazza's monkey named Ritkus and hit it with a tranquilizer dart, said zoo
spokesman David Schaefer. No one was injured and there was no indication
anyone was in any danger, he said.

The animal got loose sometime around 11 a.m., while the zoo was open to
visitors, Schaefer said. Zookeepers had been introducing the monkey to an
exhibit called Monkey Island, which is surrounded by a moat. Mammal curator
Martin Ramirez said the monkey swam across the moat and climbed up a rock
wall, apparently exploring its new home. Other similar monkeys have escaped
from the open-air exhibit before, he said, and officials plan to re-evaluate
its containment features.

The zoo was evacuated mostly as a precaution, "because it's a wild animal,"
Schaefer said. Visitors were alerted by a public-address system to leave.

DeBrazza's monkeys are native to Africa.

  • [monkeywire] Monkey escapes; Woodland Park Zoo evacuated, josh . greenman, 02/20/2009

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page