“We had just entered and heard very loud monkey noises. So we thought, they will probably just be fed”, a visitor told RTV Utrecht. “But then people came running up to us and shouted that monkeys were coming. Then you start to panic a bit.”
The woman and her daughter temporarily holed up on a slide. “Then I saw the monkey walking. He came up to us and my daughter started to scream.” At one point, the chimpanzee ran away and the two fled to a safe place in an elephant enclosure. “We sat in there for at least an hour.”
Another visitor was also hiding in the elephant enclosure. “I saw the monkeys and I thought run!” According to her, there was no panic, but the caretakers were a bit nervous. “That is of course not surprising. It is also an exciting situation. This does not happen every week. So you don’t know what is happening.”
Hutch was not properly closed
Chimpanzees Mike and Karibuna escaped from their enclosure around 10:30 AM. They were able to escape because a caretaker had not closed the shelter properly.
Amersfoort Animal Park writes in a statement that immediately after the escape was established, the ‘Animal Escaped’ protocol was set in motion. “This means, among other things, that visitors and employees are brought to safety and that the escaped animal is traced.” Ultimately, the animals were shot because they showed impressive behavior.
Life-threatening
According to behavioral biologist Godelieve Kranendonk of the AAP Foundation, the animal caretakers have made the right choice. “Chimpanzees are potentially life-threatening. Especially if they show aggressive behavior. Do not take any risks and shoot the animals is best.”
Kranendonk argues that simply stunning the animals was not an option. “In movies you see that a monkey is shot with an anesthetic dart and the animal immediately sinks. In real life it can take up to half an hour, or the anesthetic does not work at all because the animal is full of adrenaline.” In addition, the attack and pain caused by an arrow can make the animals even more aggressive.
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