Chimpanzees create makeshift ladder and excape German zoo
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^^^ Damn, too slow. The A-team was my first thought when I read the thread title.I love these two bits:
escaped animals + a zoo full of people is a recipe for disaster, but pepper spray is the final ingredient to possibly creating a full-on nightmare. Well done zoo keepers: Mace em' all first and sort em' out later.
This needs some explanation. Did she trip while looking at the chimps? That is certainly understandable, but I get the visual image of those teenage girls losing their minds when they got a glimps of the Beatles.
In terms of DnA they are our closest living animal relatives and they have proven that they not only can use tools, but they can make them as well.
Any pictures of the ladder? I want to see what level of engineering they're at. 
I for one welcome our new chimpanzee overlords.
Figured we'd just get that out of the way right now.
They also "fish" for termites, and teach their young how to do so.
There was a story some years ago about an orangutan at the National Zoo escaping from the group enclosure simply by breaching a painful - but not injurious - electrical barrier long enough to reach the ground outside the fence.
Zookeepers were quoted as being mystified that the ape - described as a middle-aged specimen who'd recently lost his mate and had then appeared depressed - was able and apparently willing to endure the substantial pain of the barrier long enough to succeed in his bid for freedom.
As a middle-aged man myself at the time, I didn't find it one bit puzzling. "Fuck this, might as well."
Zookeepers were quoted as being mystified that the ape - described as a middle-aged specimen who'd recently lost his mate and had then appeared depressed - was able and apparently willing to endure the substantial pain of the barrier long enough to succeed in his bid for freedom.
As a middle-aged man myself at the time, I didn't find it one bit puzzling. "Fuck this, might as well."
Any pictures of the ladder? I want to see what level of engineering they're at.
There's a news-blackout in place: they don't want chimps in other zoos getting any ideas.
I'm basically saying: don't get your hopes up!
ETA: Been reading the story on Welt Online; it would appear a branch from a climbing tree broke and leaned on the top of the concrete fence, allowing the apes to use it in their escape. You can almost make it out in one of the images linked to in the OP:
... here's another image (from Welt Online):
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It's clearly not a very good zoo, because four of the chimps went back to their enclosure before too long.
"Very disappointing" reported one, "None of the animals were doing anything, they were just lying there".
"I'm glad we didn't pay to get in" said another.
"Very disappointing" reported one, "None of the animals were doing anything, they were just lying there".
"I'm glad we didn't pay to get in" said another.
Re: Chimpanzees create makeshift ladder and escape German zoo
Maybe the zoo should do more to entertain the apes, like giving them chimp porn to watch.
My first thought was more along these lines:
So it seems there wasn't any "engineering" involved; the chimps simply saw an opportunity and took advantage of it. Damn, and I was hoping that in a few years they'd have mastered the arch and the barrel vault.
The chimps must be bored. That's probably why they escaped in the first place.
Maybe the zoo should do more to entertain the apes, like giving them chimp porn to watch.
... army deployed to protect banana stocks at all supermarkets.
There was a story some years ago about an orangutan at the National Zoo escaping from the group enclosure simply by breaching a painful - but not injurious - electrical barrier long enough to reach the ground outside the fence.
Zookeepers were quoted as being mystified that the ape - described as a middle-aged specimen who'd recently lost his mate and had then appeared depressed - was able and apparently willing to endure the substantial pain of the barrier long enough to succeed in his bid for freedom.
As a middle-aged man myself at the time, I didn't find it one bit puzzling. "Fuck this, might as well."
Something like this...
