A chimpanzee named Chacha who escaped from the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai, Japan was captured after a two-hour chased that ended with the ape lunging at rescuers from a power line and falling into a blanket held by workers on the ground.
Chimpanzee escapes zoo in Japan and leads police on 2-hour chase https://t.co/Z6GN6uCcQV pic.twitter.com/sBJAisEwyn
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 14, 2016
Video: Dramatic high-altitude chase as #chimpanzee goes on the loose in Japan https://t.co/3tmAuaXGmn pic.twitter.com/BqB8neDqB0
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) April 14, 2016
Dramatic video: Escaped chimpanzee attempts high-wired getaway in Japan: https://t.co/Okj8Vm4exk @CTVCanadaAM pic.twitter.com/FkIZkMdzkq
— Watch CTV News (@WatchCTVNews) April 14, 2016
VIDEO: Chimp rescued from power line https://t.co/vkmbEYTTy4
— turiah (@turiah6) April 14, 2016
According to reports, the chimp — that was darted with a tranquilizer — survived the fall and is recovering back at the zoo. Although it does look like in this video that they dropped him (Warning: the fall is pretty rough to watch):
Chimpanzee which escaped from a zoo in Japan has survived a fall following high-wire chase on a electricity polehttps://t.co/aB6gIsQpmg
— ITV News (@itvnews) April 14, 2016
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