১৪ এপ্রিল, ২০১৬

"A chimpanzee fled from a zoo in northern Japan and tried desperately to avoid capture by climbing an electric pole."



"Chacha, the male chimp, was on the loose for nearly two hours on Thursday after he disappeared from the Yagiyama Zoological Park in Sendai...."

৩২টি মন্তব্য:

Curious George বলেছেন...

Enough of the monkey business, get back to work!

Curious George বলেছেন...

How did it not get electrocuted?

Paco Wové বলেছেন...

He sure looks pissed. Probably had a rendezvous with Inky all set up.

Big Mike বলেছেন...

Getting between a chimpanzee and freedom is a dangerous thing to do.

buwaya বলেছেন...

"How did it not get electrocuted?"

- It was a very lucky chimp. Or maybe not, seeing as it was captured.

- They probably shut the power off. I wouldn't want to be up there dealing with live wires PLUS an unpredictable animal.

That fellow they sent up is also quite lucky, as he still has a face.

Rosalyn C. বলেছেন...

Reminded me of seeing a hairless chimp the other day. Shocking!

BarrySanders20 বলেছেন...

All those practice hours, drills, and professional training in learning to capture Godzilla finally paid off.

Wince বলেছেন...

Boy, he nailed that whole King Kong dangle-by-one-hand-until-you-pass-out-and-then-bounce-off-the-Empire-State-as-you fall routine down!

BarrySanders20 বলেছেন...

Comments suggesting Japanese people are inept at capturing animals are rooted in the racist notion that Asians fear Godzilla.... Every time right-wing activists raise the concept of Asians fearing Godzilla, they further a misleading narrative that defames Asian-Americans. On Wednesday, the anti-choice Charlotte Lozier Institute released a paper written by Anna Higgins, who is one member of a panel testifying before Thursday’s Senate subcommittee. “Fear of Godzilla is practiced in some Asian immigrant communities within the U.S.,” the report reads....

Wince বলেছেন...

Here it is from another angle.

CWJ বলেছেন...

John Tuffnell,

You hope to write for The Onion, right? If so, go for the funny and leave the "right-wing-activists" citations out of it.

Paddy O বলেছেন...

JT, I thought that was funny. I don't think CWJ read previous posts.

Rusty বলেছেন...

If only they could have gotten him to put on his little tuxedo before he escaped. THAT's humor the Japanese appreciate.
Oh. Hell. Who doesn't get a chuckle out of a chimp in a tuxedo?
Run! Monkey! Run!

Alex বলেছেন...

Remember Travis the chimp that ate that poor woman's face off and tore off her hands? Getting next to a chimp is a very dangerous thing.

Bay Area Guy বলেছেন...

Grown Chimps --not the cute little Bedtime for Bonzo chimps -- can be vicious killers.

Did you see the teeth on this Chimp hanging from the wire? He would bite your fingers off, quite easily.

Here's a recent chimp attack.. Not pretty.

Fritz বলেছেন...

Bay Area Guy said...
Grown Chimps --not the cute little Bedtime for Bonzo chimps -- can be vicious killers.


They are our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, after all.

Bob Ellison বলেছেন...

He was probably pining for the fjords.

Lewis Wetzel বলেছেন...

No Peter Gabriel jokes?
Did the announcer call him "Chimpanzee-san"?
Man, If that power came from a nuclear source -- good God. We'd be talking about a radioactive, three-hundred-foot-tall mutant chimp rampaging through the Japanese countryside. I think for the safety drills in Japan they have people practice running and screaming while looking behind and w-a-a-y up.

CWJ বলেছেন...

Paddy O,

Apparently not.

Ann Althouse বলেছেন...

Love that kind of comment, John Tuffnel. Thanks!

Quaestor বলেছেন...

Getting next to a chimp is a very dangerous thing.

After the United States the most important scholarship regarding the behavior and psychology of the great apes is done in Japanese institutes and Japanese-led field research in Africa. Consequently Japan has its share of highly skilled and experienced handlers and custodians. No doubt it was thanks to that fund of expertise that this incident was resolved happily.

Cha Cha wasn't leading his keepers a merry chase, however. Judging from his body language he was in full "tear your face off" mode when he was finally darted. (Look at his bristled hair, that's is an unmistakable danger signal.) Luckily for all concerned he remained on his perch until the tranquiler took effect. Had he descended to street level real mayhem could have ensued, and Cha Cha would have likely been killed as a matter of public safety.

Quaestor বলেছেন...

He was probably pining for the fjords.

Didn't look like he was pining to me.

Looked more like he was about to go full monty viking on somebody's ass.

walter বলেছেন...

We really are such pathetic bipeds in comparison, in terms the strength and agility so clear here.

Quaestor বলেছেন...

But that's the risk you take when you collect your zoo specimens from among the infamous Trondheim Troop. Even Jane Goodall refused to deal with those hominoid droogs.

chickelit বলেছেন...

Terry said...No Peter Gabriel jokes?

Shock The Monkey

or, for the German speaking world: Schock den Affen

Quaestor বলেছেন...

We really are such pathetic bipeds in comparison...

During the Tortonian Age of the Miocene Epoch, some 8 million years ago, the whole of the Old World except the polar regions and Australia might well have been called the Planet of the Apes. At least fifty species of great apes colonized the Eastern Hemisphere from southern Africa to the Rhine Valley to the Yangtze. Not long after a bipedal ape arose in Africa's Great Rift valley. Adaptive radiation caused that one two-legged ape species to spawn several lineages of other bipeds, while the quadruped apes began to die out. Long before our ancestors snapped their first flint tools the Homininae had dwindled to just two quadrupedal genera, and the Ponginae had but one surviving genus.

We may not be as strong or as agile in the trees, but our two-legged adaptation made our clan the most successful branch on the ape family tree even while our brains were still quite chimp-like.

David বলেছেন...

Freedom Loving Chimp Seeks Octopus With Similar Proclivities

Gahrie বলেছেন...

We really are such pathetic bipeds in comparison...

Get back to me after the first Chimp Moon landing.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Ann Althouse said...
Love that kind of comment, John Tuffnel. Thanks!

You should read some Pynchon.

Jaq বলেছেন...

Desperately or gleefully? I guess the writer is basing her reporting on internal models.

Rusty বলেছেন...

Somebody should get up there and give that monkey some bananas. He must be starving. And who doesn't get a chuckle out of a monkey eating a banana? AAaand it might calm him down and get him to rethink his life of crime.

mikee বলেছেন...

I, for one, respect the utility worker who is risking serious bodily harm to recapture the chimp. Or should I be angry at his supervisor for sending him up there with a damn stick to retrieve an animal that can bite off his face and rip his arms into separate pieces?

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