A gaggle of chimpanzees escaped a zoo in Sweden. The zoo determined to kill those it could not seize, a lot to animal rights’ activists chagrin.
(Fredrik Sandberg/TT / AP)
Swedish zoo officers mentioned they have been in a position to recapture three chimpanzees who had damaged out of their enclosure however that they’d shot 4 others.
The Furuvik zoo mentioned in an announcement Saturday that the surviving animals are actually being sorted and one who’s injured is receiving veterinary care.
The apes had escaped on Wednesday, with a few of them making their method out of the monkey home the place they lived. Officers have been pressured to shoot them due to the hazard to the general public. Two have been shot within the zoo grounds and one was confirmed lifeless contained in the monkey home.
When keepers have been lastly in a position to get inside on Saturday, they discovered the physique of a fourth chimp.
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“What has occurred is a superb tragedy and an enormous failure of us,” the zoo mentioned in an announcement on Fb.
“All of us really feel an enormous disappointment about what has occurred and mourn our beloved chimps Linda, Torsten, Santino and Manda. … We’re very eager to unravel how this might have occurred and the investigation could present the place we’ve (failed) or if we may have acted in a different way.”
The zoo recognized the surviving chimps as Selma, Maria-Magdalena and Tjobbe, and mentioned Selma’s accidents have been being handled.
The Jane Goodall Institute has issued a statement on the topic on Saturday, saying “Taking pictures chimpanzees ought to solely be a really final resort in case of imminent hazard to others. From what we will assess, it’s extremely questionable that this was the case.”
The institute additionally chided the zoo for not having sufficient tranquilisers to sedate the escaped animals till they could possibly be captured as an alternative of killing them, noting: “It’s by no means doable to ensure that chimpanzees, who’re very smart, will likely be unable to discover a technique to escape from their enclosures, whether or not in a zoo or a sanctuary.
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“Due to this fact there ought to all the time be a plan, nicely understood by keepers and caregivers, that permits escaped chimpanzees to be persuaded to return to their enclosures with out hazard of harming different animals or people.”
The Furuvik zoo is situated close to Gavle, 165 kilometers (100 miles) north of Stockholm. It’s a part of an amusement park. In keeping with the park’s web site, it is usually the one primate analysis station within the Nordic international locations.
It’s not the primary time in current months that animals have escaped from Swedish zoos. In October, a venomous king cobra escaped from its terrarium at a zoo in Sweden however returned by itself after every week.
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