Zoo Lockdown: Monkey Escapes
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 19th, 2009
A routine escape is getting international news. You know why.
Fox News is reporting that the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle is in lockdown because a monkey has escaped, from Monkey Island.
Needless to say, this kind of thing happens all the time. The only reason we’re hearing about it is due to the recent chimp attack news. (How bad was it? “Victim Lost Eyes, Nose, and Jaw” ~ warning, graphic content.)
It’s a DeBrazza’s monkey, Cercopithecus neglectus.
Breaking update at 11:35 am Pacific: It’s been recaptured. He was free for 30 minutes.
Media prediction: Every animal attack or zoo escape happening in the next week will be over-publicized.
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That has got to be the most beautiful monkey I have ever seen.
Wow, that’s not even news worthy. I agree, Loren. I imagine we’ll see something on the evening news about animal escapes just about every night this week…. Lame.
This just in! My puppy ran out my front door while I was taking out my garbage! Stay tuned for the story on the 5:00 news!
Fox News, what do you expect?
“Viergacht responds: February 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Fox News, what do you expect?”
Fair and balanced, like NBC, MSNBC, CBS and Rolling Stone
I remember in the early 1960s, monkey island at the Kansas City zoo the moat drained one night and about 20-30 monkeys got out. They caught monkeys for nearly two weeks around town. They had a daily “monkey update” on the local stations.