Sunday, May 10, 2009

Orang-utan short-circuits electric fence in Zoo 'escape' - Telegraph

Orang-utan short-circuits electric fence in Zoo 'escape' - Telegraph...

An "ingenious" 137-pound (62-kilogram) orang-utan used a branch to short-circuit an electric fence and escape from an Australian zoo only to change her mind and return to her enclosure. The ape, a 27-year-old female named Karta, jammed a stick into wires connected to the fence and then piled up debris to climb a concrete and glass wall at the Adelaide Zoo. Peter Whitehead, the zoo's curator, said: 'You're talking about an animal that's highly intelligent.'

Yep, intelligent enough to realize what scary world it is out there!

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