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WATCH: BABOONS USE BARRELS TO ESCAPE FROM TEXAS RESEARCH FACILITY, PROMPTING ROADWAY CHASE
BY CHANTAL DA SILVA ON 4/17/18 AT 12:59 PM
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Updated | A troop of baboons managed to escape from a biomedical research facility in Texas by propping up barrels and leaping over the fence of their enclosure, prompting a roadway chase.
Videos shared on social media showed people in masks chasing after the baboons, who managed to escape from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio on Saturday.
Witness Dorian Reyna captured video of an Southwest National Primate Research Center worker chasing a baboon after a troop of the primates escaped from their enclosure at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
The institute said it believes the baboons rolled a 55-gallon barrel left in their enclosure as an "enrichment tool" to an upright position and used it to climb out. The barrel, which had been used to help baboons "mimic foraging behaviors," according to the TBRI, has since been removed from the enclosure since it was used in the escape.
As if I needed another reason to build an escape home in New Zealand. (Monkeys can't swim!)
WATCH: BABOONS USE BARRELS TO ESCAPE FROM TEXAS RESEARCH FACILITY, PROMPTING ROADWAY CHASE
BY CHANTAL DA SILVA ON 4/17/18 AT 12:59 PM
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U.S.BABOONSTEXAS
Updated | A troop of baboons managed to escape from a biomedical research facility in Texas by propping up barrels and leaping over the fence of their enclosure, prompting a roadway chase.
Videos shared on social media showed people in masks chasing after the baboons, who managed to escape from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute (TBRI) in San Antonio on Saturday.
Witness Dorian Reyna captured video of an Southwest National Primate Research Center worker chasing a baboon after a troop of the primates escaped from their enclosure at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.
The institute said it believes the baboons rolled a 55-gallon barrel left in their enclosure as an "enrichment tool" to an upright position and used it to climb out. The barrel, which had been used to help baboons "mimic foraging behaviors," according to the TBRI, has since been removed from the enclosure since it was used in the escape.
As if I needed another reason to build an escape home in New Zealand. (Monkeys can't swim!)
