{"id":756254,"date":"2019-02-20T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756254"},"modified":"2019-02-20T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T13:14:20","slug":"the-great-escape-chimps-use-branch-as-ladder-to-escape-belfast-zoo-enclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756254","title":{"rendered":"The great escape: Chimps use branch as ladder to escape Belfast zoo enclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The chimps took advantage of damage caused by stormy weather to stage a breakout. A red panda cub called Amber also escaped from its enclosure last month.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>BEN QUINN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Chimpanzees have used a branch to escape from their enclosure at Belfast zoo in the second breach by animals in recent weeks. They took advantage of damage caused by stormy weather to stage a breakout, which visitors caught on film. It comes after a red panda cub called Amber was found in a garden less than a mile from the zoo after it escaped from its enclosure last month.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The latest bid for freedom was made by chimps who used a branch as a makeshift ladder and scaled high walls surrounding their pen on Saturday. Visitors described seeing one of the escapees emerge from the bushes on to a path while others were sitting on top of their enclosure wall&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Zookeeper Alyn Cairns said trees in the enclosure had been weakened by the storms, allowing the chimps to break them and use them as a ladder to escape. He told the BBC: \u201cThey\u2019re intelligent primates and know they\u2019re not supposed to be out of their enclosure, so got back in themselves&#8221;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/feb\/10\/chimps-use-branch-as-ladder-to-escape-belfast-zoo-enclosure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-NnAiqdakMQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEN QUINN: &#8216;Chimpanzees have used a branch to escape from their enclosure at Belfast zoo in the second breach by animals in recent weeks. They took advantage of damage caused by stormy weather to stage a breakout, which visitors caught on film. It comes after a red panda cub called Amber was found in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21,23],"tags":[27,28,33],"class_list":["post-756254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kisnship","category-rights","tag-cruelty","tag-entertainment","tag-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=756254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756256,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756254\/revisions\/756256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/756255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=756254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=756254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=756254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}