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Monkey Escapes at Jacksonville Zoo

By Cathleen O'Toole
First Coast News

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The kids in Karen Stephens' class at Riverside 
Presbyterian Day School know they saw something.

"He looked like yellow and brown," pipes up one.

Another description makes him sound a bit like Big Foot.

"He had a tan and brown body with a white circle around his face."

And a little like Mighty mouse -- minus the mighty.

"He was little and he couldn't any damage."

He was actually a she.

A one-year-old squirrel monkey got loose at the Range of the Jaguar 
Exhibit at the Jacksonville Zoo just after lunch on Friday.

Zookeepers shut down the area as they established a perimeter looking 
for the eight-ounce South American native.

The school kids on a field trip agree it wasn't scary.

Especially since they have Furball Velveteen, the constantly escaping 
hamster, on their classroom windowsill.

He's known to break out at night, nibble a little paper, and bop back 
in his cage by morning time.

The squirrel monkey proved a bit more elusive.

Eventually she was coaxed down from her perch high in a tree.

She got a bath and a banana.

The zoo's director of biological programs says she'll get dinner too.

Zookeepers are still a little unclear about how the monkey escaped.

The entire group of seven squirrel monkeys was removed from display for 
the rest of the day.

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