Ok... so...
A spider monkey escaped from its enclosure at the zoo in Michigan City Indiana... by climbing up a garden hose.
Apparently crews were draining the moat that keeps the monkeys in, left the hose hanging down into the enclosure and our little friend, who was used to thinking "there is no way out of this dump" started thinking "not anymore..."
First, i cannot believe that a moat can keep these guys in the pen at all. That is crazy. Monkeys have got to be able to swim Especially in still water. Unless of course there are large, monkey eating fish or crocodiles in the moat, but with PETA around, i doubt that would ever fly. "oh look it is like the natural world!" -- "NO! We are PETA, and we thinking animals are people... they shouldn't be subject to the natural world... or zoos... or both... or... lets go get more red paint!"
Go luck PETA.
The other thing that gets me is this line
"Zoo Director Johnny Martinez says workers had figured the monkeys would remain inside their enclosure during the cleaning despite the lack of water in the moat to act as a barricade"
... blink... blink...
Apparently the workers at the zoo are bulking up their resumes in hopes of being the next James Bond Villains. "We will empty the containment devices, turn our backs and trust that monkeys don't try to escape and run back the wild where they belong. What could go wrong?"
I dunno... they could... uhm... escape?
"You're not listening... it's foolproof!... we will TAKE AWAY all the things that keep these creatures contained then we will not watch while we clean their area and leave a vine-like instrament dangling to the outside world near these animals that are natural climbers and tree-dwellers and trust that they will just stay put. We are people... they are animals. We are SO much more clever."
HAH!
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