Thursday, 8. July 2010
Topic: NATURE - on July 8, 2010 at 10:20:00 AM CEST
Monkeys use trees to catapault themselves out of Japanese laboratory
A group of 15 monkeys at Kyoto University's primate research institute in Aichi Prefecture, which are the focus of a string of high-profile scientific studies, escaped from their forest home which is encased by a 17ft high electric fence.
The monkeys made their bid for freedom by using tree branches to fling themselves one by one over the high voltage electric fence located nearly three metres away.
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