Metro Jos Zoo: Escaped Chimpanzee, Returns To Cage

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The General Manager of Plateau State Tourism Corporation, Mr. John Doy has said the animal which left its cage at the Jos Wild life park is a Chimpanzee not baboon as widely reported.

The animal has been guided safely to its cage as at Wednesday and was said to have been new to the environment because it was recently brought to the State through an exchange programme, DailyTrust gathered.

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Doy who made an unscheduled visit to the zoo alongside the Commissioners of Lands and Survey, Festus Faunter and that of Tourism, Peter Mwakon was quoted by the state government owned radio station as saying, “in the process of feeding the chimpanzees the door was opened and that was the reason why they all came out. Because that particular one was a new one that was just brought through exchange programme, it wasn’t use to the place. Well it didn’t go out of the park, it was within the vicinity and it just wanted to touch the man but he was so afraid and he ran away.”

The Commissioner of Lands and Survey, Festus Faunter directed that all illegal structures around the zoo vicinity was to be demolished as part of efforts by the state government to put a stop to land encroachment into the 7km zoo.

Nigerian Bulletin recall that this is not the first time Chimpanzee will be escaping from the Jos Zoo. In 2016, two Chimpanzees escaped their cage harassing passersby at the Museum premises but later returned to safety net.
 
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