I mentioned missing llamas in a post a while back, but it seems some other wild creatures have been let loose on the world over the last few days.
You’ve got to love this first one. A group of fifteen monkeys being used by a lab in Japan, escaped the other day from a high-security research center at Kyoto University. They had figured out how to use tree limbs to catapult themselves over a seventeen-foot-high electric fence.
They have since been caught – lured back using peanuts, goddammit – and returned to the facility. And the handy tree limbs have been trimmed back. See if you can spot the dejected-looking monkey sitting among the cut branches in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture.
This is not the first time monkeys have made a break for it. In a similar incident back in 2008, fifteen Patas monkeys escaped from a zoo in Florida. They didn’t use trees this that time. They were put on an island, surrounded by a fifty-foot-wide, eight-foot-deep moat. 
Apparently, this breed of monkey can’t swim . . . but nobody told the monkeys. They swam across the moat and did a runner.
Closer to home this time, a penguin went AWOL in Dublin city yesterday. According to the Irish Times, the female Humboldt penguin, named Kelli, was stolen from Dublin Zoo by some sad gits. But with typical penguin cunning, she escaped her penguin-nappers. She was found wandering the streets of Dublin, thanks to the electronic tag that all of the zoo’s animals are fitted with (though you would think some member of the public might have spotted her – flightless aquatic birds are not a common sight on the streets of Ireland’s capital).
Most people think penguins are cute, but I’ve never trusted them since watching the Wallace & Gromit film, ‘The Wrong Trousers’. That was one creepy penguin. I tell ya, you just can’t tell what’s going on behind those beady eyes.
