A hole in the zoo's cage Escape about 70 Japanese monkeys Chiba Futtsu June 10 20:22
A fence was set up in a zoo in Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture to raise Japanese macaques, and someone made a hole in it to allow about 70 monkeys to escape, and the city rushed to capture it and submitted a damage report to the police. did.
At Futtsu City in Chiba Prefecture, the Takatoyama Natural Zoo has a typhoon last September that caused the fence of the Japanese monkey breeding space to collapse, allowing monkeys to freely come and go outside.
If such a situation continues, it may cross with the non-native rhesus monkeys that live in the surrounding area and affect the unique gene, so the city will make a temporary cage and proceed to capture Japanese macaques and house about 70 animals. did.
However, at around 7 am on the 10th, a worker who visited the zoo found a monkey escaping, and the city investigated and found that someone had a hole about 40 cm in diameter in the fence of the temporary cage. about it.
The monkeys spent most of their time around the cage, so the city rushed to capture it and filed a police report.
Futtsu City's Commerce and Industry Tourism Department said, "I'm sorry to say that it took a long time to catch, so I want to rush it again to prevent damage to crops in the surrounding area and protect the genes of Japanese macaques."